Let's say that hacker culture is the source of big game-changing ideas that revolutionize software etc. In my opinion these radical ideas have a higher probability of failure as well. Now consider hundreds of small companies doing hacker culture. Most fail, a few succeed. Now one has succeeded: does the hacker culture persist? They may have some advantage to the other start ups, they may have been lucky. Maybe they worked really hard because of the promise of success. Maybe there's some combination of these things. Will the next project for that company have the same incentives, risks and rewards as the one that got it going? The same chance of success? Should it? In some sense it makes more sense for the bigger companies to change gears somewhat: refine what they have, acquire something transformative (let someone else take the risk), protect what they have with highly trained experts (who can perhaps afford to be more risk-averse).

Am I wrong?