There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.
As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.
The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
The only problem is time.
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.