Tiny Teams Playbook
5 days ago
- #Tiny Teams
- #AI Engineering
- #Productivity Agents
- AI Engineer Summit focused on Coding Agents is happening in NYC on Nov 20-22.
- Tiny Teams concept emphasizes efficiency with more ARR than employees, promoting speed and adaptability.
- Tiny Teams represent the next major transition in organizational structure as we move towards AGI level 3.
- Key hiring strategies include hiring right, work trials, product-led hiring, and top market salaries.
- Culture and values focus on low ego, high trust, independence, grit, and radical transparency.
- Operations emphasize deep focus, AI automation, letting fires burn, and compound learning.
- Tech and product strategies include simple tech stacks, simple products, feature flags, and benchmarks.
- Examples of successful Tiny Teams include Gamma, Gumloop, Bolt.new, Oleve, Hassan El Mghari, Datalab, and Every.
- Gamma serves 50 million users with 30 people, emphasizing generalists, player-coaches, and culture.
- Gumloop focuses on extreme hiring, no meetings, and automation.
- Bolt.new highlights ruthless prioritization and focusing on critical tasks.
- Oleve follows the 'Harvesters vs Cultivators' philosophy and operates stealthily.
- Hassan El Mghari runs a one-man team with 3 million users.
- Datalab achieves 7-figure ARR with 7 people, focusing on high trust and senior generalists.
- Every emphasizes benchmarks and evals, raising $2 million from Reid Hoffman.
- Cognition, with 80 people, made over $100 million, with Devin 3.0 involving a VSCode Fork.