[Firegarden]

Well I wonder who the PE team is because perhaps they see value that exists intrinsically in quality programmers that know how to design software both quickly and at a high quality level and engineer it in a way that it can be built-in iterations and refined into a maintainable system.

For example someone like Joel Spolsky could probably find a way to drive profits from the TW team and so maybe its a programmer that knows business behind the PE money.

[toyg]

Someone like Joel Spolsky would likely stay the hell away from the dirty game that is large-scale consultancy.

[mschaef]

He's said as much:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...