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Re:Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisa... by zemvpferreira on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:33PM (#28240207)
Instagram was 13 people when Facebook acquired it for roughly 1 billion dollars. It had 30 million users.

Plenty of us have excuses for why our companies are not worth 76 million dollars per employee. Some of us don't even try. The point is you're right: It doesn't take a lot of people to create extraordinary value.

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Re:Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisa... by hinkley on Thursday August 19, 2021 @07:10PM (#28240487)
Creativity generally doesn’t bloom without constraints. If you know you can’t afford to build something bespoke yourself, you have to find a set of tools and needs that are complementary to each other. You have to do it right, because there’s no other option.
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