Ultimately, networks of people are held together with heart. Not only by mathematical, transactional, left-brain incentive structures. Right brain human psychology prevails in the long term — belief in a mission, or commitment to a set of human relationships.
While big funds need to have sharp elbows -- they need to prove to founders that their money is better than their rivals’ -- solo GPs can pull together Liquid Super Teams of other solo GPs who, together, would give the company a better chance of success. Companies like Party Round will make this even easier and more common.
While I certainly still complained about school, I realize now that my upbringing developed a love for learning—not school—learning. We would spend a ton of time reading and I would leave the library with a towering stack of books, hoping they would last the two weeks until we would come back.