Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Yeah, so there's something, four is too few for what we're trying to achieve at scale. But even if you look at Pixar, any good movie on the scripting and story side, it's usually a fairly small team. Even when you move into character development, stuff like that, it's fairly small and then it really scales when you move into production. It's just hard to figure out something new to do together when there's too many people involved. I think that word new is really key here. I think when people hear this advice, they're thinking at their existing company, should we just keep our company small? Should we not scale this thing that we have? I think what you're describing, which I completely agree with is new stuff for sure you want to keep the team small and tight, but as things grow and scale, what's your take on just, okay, actually it's okay to have a lot of people on this. Well, you have to bring a lot of people in once you figure out what you're doing. And so to your point, once you realize you're building Disneyland and you've got the whole thing set and people know what it's about, then they can come in and understand, oh, I'm playing my piece over here. I'm supposed to design the line experience for the new ride sitting in Tomorrowland, but I know where that fits into this larger thing. I think you can scale once you have clarity of vision, but it's very difficult to get vision with a lot of people.…

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