JC's Newsletter - Small teams can achieve great things
Dear friends,Every week, I’m sharing an essay that relates to what we are building and learning at Alan. Those essays are fed by the article I’m lucky enough to read and capitalise on. I’m going to try to be provocative in those essays to trigger a discussion with the community. Please answer, comment, and ping me! If you are not subscribed yet, it's right here! If you like it, please share it on social networks! Small teams can achieve great thingsRecently, in some internal exchanges, I read and heard about questions such as: “how can we innovate or be competitive on various topics, like Doctor AI and many others, even though we have a very small team and others are much larger?” I think it's a classic misconception to think that large teams are necessary to solve complex problems. Mistral managed to release amazing models with under 20 people. At Expliseat, my first company, we released the world's lightest aircraft seat with fewer than 20 people, while competitors were several hundred. I can list dozens and dozens of examples where very small teams have done extraordinary things. In fact, it's not a question of the number of people, but of having the right people on the right problems. It's the same in research. Often, it's the very small laboratories that make huge innovations. We see that tiny teams can solve big problems. Once we know this, it actually gives a lot of hope. It's not about counting the number of people we have on a subject. It's about making sure we have extremely brilliant people who are very eager to innovate on a topic that involves risks, that fails quickly, etc. Having larger teams often just means spending more time coordinating and collaborating than building. The smaller the team, the more each can advance fast. Then, once we scale up, there are often more maintenance costs, more management costs, etc., which cause teams to grow very quickly. As a result, let's not limit ourselves to the number of "we've only allocated three people to a problem" to decide whether the problem is important or not for the company. The question is who we have allocated and how much we believe in it. Some good articles I have read this weekHealthcare👉Mosie Baby received FDA clearance for at-home intravaginal insemination (Bloomberg)
👉 Metabolic Meltdown: The Hidden Health Crisis (Part 1 and 2) (The Health 3.0 Newsletter)
👉 Health OS Revolution: Powering Preventative Care with Data (The Health 3.0 Newsletter)
Building companies & product👉 Alexandre Yazdi about Voodoo Story (X)
👉 Scott Belsky on attention spans (X)
👉 Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us (Implications)
Let’s talk about this together on LinkedIn or on Twitter. Have a good week! |
Older messages
Member-led & customer-led
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
JC's Newsletter #207
Product innovation through “voice”
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
JC's Newsletter #20
Creating a brand platform
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
JC's Newsletter #205
Productivity gains and Parkinson’s law
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
JC's Newsletter #204
Health & “Joie de Vivre”
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
JC's Newsletter #203
You Might Also Like
Play and Earn with Dimension X; Elixir Games Season Pass; The Machines Arena Open Beta; Worldshards dropping NFTs during early access; Life Beyond preview and more in Play to Earn Newsletter #225
Saturday, May 4, 2024
May 04, 2024 Pixels remains on top; My Neighbor Alice Beta; new Unity build for Voxie Tactics; Wanderers Closed Beta; Paradise Tycoon mint; Dimension X Arenas, and more in Play to Earn Newsletter #226
The Three SaaS Metrics That Matter in 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
The three most under-discussed metrics To view this email as a web page, click here saastr daily newsletter The Three SaaS Metrics That Matter in 2024 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin By Amelia
Does experience matter?
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Also: Forecasting private capital's path to $20 trillion in AUM; Recapping market performance in April; Can payments re-energize enterprise fintech? Read online | Don't want to receive these
'You Have To Bring Solutions, Ideas and Be Prepared'
Saturday, May 4, 2024
We spoke to Alabama Assistant Basketball Coach Ryan Pannone about lessons from coaching across the globe and keys to advancing a career.
The curious case of Google Trends in India
Saturday, May 4, 2024
For nine of the last ten years, the most searches were for why Apple products and Evian water are so expensive ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3,500 sign ups in 24 hours
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Today's hack Do you piggyback on Slack communities? ;) Noam Schwartz gained 3500 sign ups in 24 hours. Recently I received an email from Noam Schwartz - a member of our gorgeous community: I did an
Your Personal Trainer for Making Sales
Saturday, May 4, 2024
If you want the best results, you're going to need the best trainer... View in browser ClickBank When you're at the gym, you can do one of three things: Use the machines randomly Follow a
Zhipu AI: The Rise of an AI Tiger Reaching for AGI
Saturday, May 4, 2024
The only overview of Zhipu AI's technology, open-source efforts, partnerships, and future goals in English
So long, Henry.
Friday, May 3, 2024
A combined issue flush with key insights and original thoughts in two new, data-driven reports. View this email in your browser So long, Henry. (No. 994). The economy is squeezing consumers to the
He survived all recent Google updates
Friday, May 3, 2024
Advice from Birdzilla's founder