The New Status Game for Companies: Fewer Employees

For one, the faster a new company is built, the faster other companies can benefit from it. New primitives create new opportunities for innovation. Kind of obvious.Less explored is the fact that if a new company needs fewer employees, because it can outsource whole functions to APIs and software, there are more talented employees freed up to go sta... See more

So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"

I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.

And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually, that

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The chasm that starts somewhere between 9 to 12 people can be especially daunting for a small business. As you grow past 12 or so employees, you must start specializing and having departments and direct reports; however, you are not quite large enough for this to be efficient, and thus much employee time that you put toward management tasks is wast... See more