lly possible if you control more of the stack.</p></blockquote><p>I think Andreas makes a valuable observation here, that <strong>owning and understanding further up and down your software stack can let you move faster and build things others couldn't have built</strong>. Of course, there is a reason this isn't common in the industry -- for most software products and companies, it's simply not practical to build and own the full stack behind complex and ever-evolving products. But I think that calculus chan