What Thuan Pham thinks about team size

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thuan Pham has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingA functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.

   Their wordsevery feature that we want to put out has to be queued up on mobile development bandwidth dispatch bandwidth and it become impossible to navigate tradeoff because every feature you want to do you have to go negotiate with so many team

   ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 10th of 24 in this recording

3. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingThe organising rule under extreme growth is that no team may block another — even when honouring it means adding to the very monolith you are trying to dismantle.

   Their wordsthe philosophy we all operate at the time was no one should be blocking anybody else. No one can block anybody else.

   ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 13th of 24 in this recording