What Ben Kuhn thinks about team size

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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1. 13 Jul 2024

   Our readingFast-growing companies will never achieve full pairwise trust between all employees.

   Their wordsIn a large, fast-growing company you'll probably never get to the utopian ideal of full pairwise trust between everyone-it takes too long to build.

   ↗Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quicklybenkuhn.net 2nd of 2 in this piece