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! |
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