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Published · transcript-backedBob Baxley: uncertainty
12 Jun 2025 Lenny's Podcast 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley
“If you had put a massive group, I don't know man, maybe it'd end up with the Zune or something completely different.”
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- Bob Baxley
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- uncertainty
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- 12 Jun 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I love this metaphor of The Beatles as the way most people describe this is designed by committee never works. I love that the way you describe it is the Beatles is like the ideal size a small group versus a committee. I just always have to point out to people that there are 20 people that worked on the original Mac. I mean it's 20 of them, that's it, 20. Susan Kare was one of them, Andy Hertzfeld, you go through the list, 20 of them are on the patent. There's 24 that are on the iPhone patent. Now there's other people involved, but generally there's 24 people on the iPhone patent. And that was the team. That was Project Purple that was doing that stuff. These are not massive massive groups doing these things. If you had put a massive group, I don't know man, maybe it'd end up with the Zune or something completely different. Who knows? They probably did have a massive group on the Zune.…
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