- Silicon Valley is awash in talk about tiny teams.
- Many are citing AI explicitly when they talk about why they need smaller teams.
- The changes mean Jeff Bezos‘ famed “two pizza” may no longer hold true.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos famously suggested that to maintain productive meetings, everyone present should be able to be fed with two pizzas.
In the age of AI, teams across business and tech are shrinking. Some executives have said that’s why they slashed jobs. Others just want more streamlined divisions.
It remains to be seen if OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s prediction of 10-person companies with billion-dollar valuations will come true.
In the meantime, there will likely be a lot fewer pizzas or a lot more leftovers.
Here’s how corporate leaders are thinking about team size.
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David PanCursor field chief technology officer David Pan thinks it’s time to revise Bezos’ pizza rule.”He was right about small teams,” Pan wrote on X in July. “But in the AI era, two pizzas are too much pizza.”Pan praised “the all-time great metaphor,” but said it was time to replace it.”RIP to the two pizza team,” he wrote.Business Insider USA
