Theses 19 / 20 QUALITATIVE published 05 Apr 2026 · updated 28 July 2026 · v14

The Tiny Teams Thesis

AI enables radical reduction in team sizes required to build and operate at scale. The productivity gap is not technological but organisational — entity/sam-newman's "10% not 10x" framing captures it precisely. Large organisations get 10% improvement because their coordination overhead absorbs the rest. Tiny teams get 10x because they lack the organisational overhead. entity/mastercard's "Virtual CFO" for small businesses is the enterprise version of this thesis. The CrossBea

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31 AUG 2026
John returns to his own line: hire more designers, engineering is not the limit

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