17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 18 Feb 2026 to 19 Sept 2026.
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The next generation of software companies will run with far smaller teams, charge far less, and ship and iterate far faster than the incumbents they replace.
Last stated 18 Feb 2026 · 7 months ago
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Jason Evanish
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Smaller teams are better
Last stated 4 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Fabien Sanglard
Nat Friedman
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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.
Last stated 9 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Adam Mosseri
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The competitive threat to a small software company is a team of two or four working under the same constraints, never the behemoth.
Last stated 26 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase, and startups adopting Google practices will look sillier as they can build faster with fewer constraints.
Last stated 19 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Thorsten Ball
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A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.
Last stated 2 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Tom Verrilli
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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.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Chelsea Finn
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Shipping ten times as much is not an advantage, because the moment you ship something you are stuck supporting it forever and every later feature has to interact with it.
Last stated 27 May 2026 · 4 months ago
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Dax Raad
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Needing fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.
Last stated 2 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Tom Verrilli
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Same subject: startups
“Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now.
Last stated 28 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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Blake Scholl
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Same subject: startups
A belief nobody else shares is a warning, and a belief everybody shares is also a warning; the right number of people who agree with you is small but not zero.
Last stated 28 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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Sam Altman
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Same subject: startups
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Justin Jackson
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Same subject: venture capital
A first-time founder has an advantage over a repeat winner, because past success makes it too easy to raise money and hire against a big vision before there is product-market fit.
Last stated 14 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Mark Pincus
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Same subject: venture capital
About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.
Last stated 18 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Pieter Levels
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Same subject: venture capital
An investor who passes on a pitch they find truly novel will often still refer it to another investor, to get credit for having found it.
Last stated 5 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Zach Holman
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Same subject: product management
A large company should help its existing product managers become AI-native rather than only hiring people who already are.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Tamar Yehoshua
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Same subject: product management
A product can be technically impressive yet fail because it launched before a real market for it existed.
Last stated 11 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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M.G. Siegler
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Same subject: product management
Being too ambitious and visionary at the outset is how founders miss product-market fit, because it stops them starting somewhere small and humble enough.
Last stated 14 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Mark Pincus