What Nat Friedman thinks about team size
Investor and engineer; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin, and funder of the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Nat Friedman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSmaller teams are better
Their wordsSmaller teams are better Faster decisions, fewer meetings, more fun No need to chop up work for political reasons
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Their wordsLarge-scale engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed