Anecdotal data point: I work at one.  We&#x27;ve capped both the number of clients and the number of employees at around 12.  I work 18 hours a week, so does the founder.  The most anyone works is 35, but they&#x27;re the exception, and the next &quot;raise&quot; they get will be the same amount of money but less hours.<p>We&#x27;ve been a going concern for 4 years now, so there&#x27;s still time for things to go off the rails; but for the moment we&#x27;re killing our competition and there&#x27;s essentially zero internal strife.<p>To keep the caps we&#x27;re starting to divide like a bacterium - fostering other companies around our model instead of growing ourselves.  We&#x27;ll see how that goes.  It&#x27;s a little alarming to realize that we&#x27;re creating our own competition, but there&#x27;s precedent for it going well (e.g. Anchor Brewing in San Francisco).<p>It&#x27;s a great way to make money, and I spend all the other productive hours of my week on my efforts to change the world.  There&#x27;s lots of blue-ocean ways to do that when the need to monetize takes a back seat.