- Working with smaller teams early in your career:
- Faster decisions, fewer meetings, more fun
- You learn more, as you're not distracted by the noise of a large team
- You have more control on what you want to build in a small team, and you're motivated to be a leader
- Great technical teams make the right decisions early:
- Data structure quality determines shipping velocity - UI is ephemeral, your data model is not
- Observability is non-negotiable - session recordings, error tracking, and metrics from day one
- Hiring the right people defines how your company scales
- Action beats perfection in early-stage startups:
- Ship fast and iterate - ideas are worthless without execution
- Talk to users weekly, not after months of building in isolation
- The best time to launch was yesterday, the second best is today