* The value&#x2F;importance of a 1% increase in efficiency can make or break team performance. 1% of an 8 figure company isn&#x27;t enough to fund a multi discpline, multi-person team looking to improve efficiency for a year. The parent company literally employs a team whose sole purpose is internal efficiency&#x2F;performance improvements where &quot;single digit percentage&quot; improvements are enough productivity to justify a multi-million dollar budget. Sure it &quot;exists&quot; in theory in a smaller company but it no one is paid to perform the job because the cost&#x2F;benefit isn&#x27;t there.<p>* The mindset change in regards to accounting, legal risks, etc.<p>* The amount of red tape &amp; interaction with state&#x2F;federal governments. No one cared what we were doing when we were just an 8 figure company.<p>* We actually care about PR when it, frankly, didn&#x27;t matter before.<p>Sure, you &quot;care&quot; about these things as a smaller business but you don&#x27;t have dedicated teams of people solely to manage them. Building dedicated teams solely to perform function X vs. having teams that are more general purpose is a huuuuuuuuge practical difference imo.