What does it mean to self perform on a job as a developer?

I understand a lot of developers may have only a lean dev team in an office. They would hire out a PM and construction team.

What if the developer has their dev team, but also has a head of construction with a few project managers on the payroll. Would this be considered self performing on a project because you have both dev and construction side although you're still hiring subs for the work?

I heard this phrase from an interview Michael Stern/JDS did and he said they self perform on their projects.... that can't really mean they have in house subs for these projects that would be ridiculous. Can anyone clarify?

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This would mean an in house GC, basically a construction team who hires outside subs. 
 

Not to be confused with shops that have in house construction guys who manage the GC (as opposed to acting as a GC themselves).  That would not be self performing.  

 
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