Tobi Lütke: The optimal team size for fast execution is six people
Tobi L–tke · Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 3, 2023 · at 35:32
Tobi Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify. He discusses optimal team design based on his early career mentorship and engineering practices.
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“The best team in the world, the fastest moving team in the world is one person that has all the skills needed. The second best is a team of six people that are very, like intellectually diverse and can bring a lot of new different information together, but, like become a real team”
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