Chris Lyons: 2025 startups can match 100-person speed with 10 people
Chris Lyons · Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson · Feb 11, 2026 · at 56:00
Chris Lyons, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), discusses how emerging AI and technology tools enable new startups to operate with radically smaller teams and faster execution.
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“Because if you're building a business from the ground up in twenty-twenty-five, you're starting a brand new company, you're not going to do things the old way. And you think about with the tools that are available now, like that means just by default, you can say instead of us having a, you know, a hundred person team, or we can actually do this with 10 people. And now we have, we can still operate at 10 X a speed.”
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