the power of a good prompt, small teams, extreme questions to trigger ideas, working online/living offline
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the power of a good prompt, small teams, extreme questions to trigger ideas, working online/living offline
impressive things accomplished by small teams.
- Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time. Source
- Mojang (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 mil
Steve Pulec • Small teams
Working in tech should be more like filmmaking—artists jumping from project to project, collaborating with new creators across disciplines every few months, making magic happen.
Imagine a collab between your favorite designers/devs dropping like a Wes Anderson trailer.
I really like the approach of Netflix of 10 years ago when it was still small. They hired mature people so they could get rid of processes. Indeed, they actually tried to de-process everything. As a result, things just happened. Non-event was often mentioned and expected in Netflix at that time. Case in point, active-active regions just happened in... See more
