I thought this was good:<p>&gt; OT, but do anyone know exactly what went wrong with McAfee after the founder left the company?<p>&gt; It grew, it got big, like every company. When I started, there were 4 of us. Generating $10M&#x2F;yr, we could have lived happily for our lives on that. VCs came and offered to make it bigger, we had to grow, we didn&#x27;t have sales, marketing, etc. I gave it away, unless you were a government, corporation, etc. Once I went public, I had 1000 bosses, investors, FTC, SEC, all my time in meetings and interviews. I hired a programmer&#x2F;day for over a year! I used to spend time taking apart viruses, not I was an accountant. Once a company gets big, it becomes slow, and cannot survive in its current form.<p>Nice cautionary tail there about ruining something good by trying to go too big