Comment by thot_experiment
17 hours ago
Valve is one of the only companies that appears to understand this, as well as that individual productivity is almost always limited by communication bandwidth, and communication burden is exponential as nodes in the tree/mesh grow linearly. [or some derated exponent since it doesn't need to be fully connected]
The first one to realise this was Jeff Bezos, afaik. One would think the others have wisened up in the meantime, but no.
> The first one to realise this was Jeff Bezos, afaik
I am not aware about the details - can you elaborate?
Maybe the Two Pizza rule:
No team at Amazon should be larger than what two pizzas can feed (usually about 6 to 10 people).
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