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Read this korrent: A small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline.
A small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline.
Last stated 6 months ago
11 Mar 2026
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Jeff Kaplan — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance. — tap to centre the map on it
A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single…
Last stated 8 years ago
14 Jul 2018
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Will Larson — holds since 2018-07-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its own specialist models first. — tap to centre the map on it
A small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its…
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Chelsea Finn — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI's productivity gains at Figma have been mild to moderate, and none of them have reduced the number of engineers the company wants to hire. — tap to centre the map on it
AI's productivity gains at Figma have been mild to moderate, and none of them have reduced the number of…
Last stated 11 months ago
16 Oct 2025
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Dylan Field — holds since 2025-10-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Automating a profession's work grows its headcount rather than shrinking it, because the backlog of demand was always the binding constraint. — tap to centre the map on it
Automating a profession's work grows its headcount rather than shrinking it, because the backlog of demand was always…
Last stated a month ago
26 Jul 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Headcount does not translate into product quality, and often the opposite: too many people spend their time coordinating, and the idle ones demotivate the rest. — tap to centre the map on it
Headcount does not translate into product quality, and often the opposite: too many people spend their time…
Last stated 11 months ago
30 Sept 2025
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Pavel Durov — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The default team is two people, one programmer and one designer, on one feature; at that size you can just do instead of plan. — tap to centre the map on it
The default team is two people, one programmer and one designer, on one feature; at that size you can just do…
Last stated a year ago
12 Jul 2025
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Small product teams beat large ones for a reason that has nothing to do with AI: fewer people to coordinate means less design by committee. — tap to centre the map on it
Small product teams beat large ones for a reason that has nothing to do with AI: fewer people to coordinate means…
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
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Adam Mosseri — holds since 2026-07-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Smaller teams are better — tap to centre the map on it
Smaller teams are better
Last stated 3 days ago
4 Sept 2026
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Nat Friedman — holds since 2026-09-04 — tap for who they are
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