What Marvin Schwaibold thinks about team size

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Leads the Product Design Studio at Shopify; co-founder of the design agency Molly, which Shopify acquired in 2025.

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1. 2 Apr 2026

   Our readingBeing a mile wide and an inch deep with a team loses creativity; the team is better kept together and close, sequencing work more than running it in parallel.

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   Their wordsYou don't want to be a mile wide and an inch deep with your team. That's how you lose creativity. That's how you lose the environment where somebody with a specific skill set can be successful and can work in. You want to keep the team together. You want to keep the team really close and you want to sequence more than you do parallel.

   ↗Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studioyoutube.com 6th of 20 in this recording