✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

sbensu: Lieutenants are the limiting reagent

blog.sbensu.com · 834 words · saved by 1 readers

Why don't software companies ship more products? Why do they move more slowly as they grow? What do we mean when we say "this company lacks focus"?

sbensu: Lieutenants are the limiting reagent Lieutenants are the limiting reagent September 2023 The statement "this company lacks focus" confuses me. Don't companies hire more people in order to do more things? Shouldn’t the number of things the company can "focus" on expand as you hire? Clearly that is the case: Google has 100 products more than any new startup could have. But if anything, 100 products seems too few; after all, they have 200k employees! For reference, Instagram launched with less than 13 people. If Google were as efficient as Instagram was, they "should have" 150x more produ

Explore this link on the map →

related reading