This sort of blew my mind:
The Instagram founding team were 2 people
The original iPhone team were less than 20
YouTube was originally built by 3 people
WhatsApp was about 12 people
The Macintosh team were 15
Google was founded by 2 people
The Wright brothers were only 2
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The Instagram founding team were 2 people
The original iPhone team were less than 20
YouTube was originally built by 3 people
WhatsApp was about 12 people
The Macintosh team were 15
Google was founded by 2 people
The Wright brothers were only 2
#buildinpublic
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Thanks for sharing!
It's a bit dense, but in essence, small teams are far more disruptive and rely on non-mainstream concepts
Pretty interesting stuff
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02445
So small teams disrupt while large teams develop and refine.
I had been struggling to find a reason why you'd want a large team vs. a smaller one, but I suppose this makes the case for both!
True example that you can achieve still big results with small team. :)
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