Solo founder Gokul is nervous about it. Two-person is good, the "hustler" and a "hacker"
Apple • Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started...
A product team is a group of people who bring together different specialized skills and responsibilities and feel real ownership for a product or at least a substantial piece of a larger product.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Growth teams should bring together staff who have a deep understanding of the strategy and business goals, those with the expertise to conduct data analysis, and those with the engineering chops to implement changes in the design, functionality, or marketing of the product and program experiments to test those changes.
Morgan Brown • Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
when you do find a partner, avoid one cardinal mistake: do not create a 50/50 partnership.
Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
principle. The minimum size for a product team is usually two engineers and a product manager, and if the team is responsible for user‐facing technology, then a product designer is needed, too.