Startups need their first product leadership at 23 to 30 engineers
Gokul Rajaram · a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:22
Gokul Rajaram outlines engineering scale thresholds that trigger the need for explicit product strategy and leadership during an a16z panel.
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“About 23 to 30 engineers is when you see the first evolution of leadership in the product function, because, A, there's enough engineers that there's many different things that you could organize them in many different ways, so there's need for more explicit strategy formulation, and finally there's a team of people who needs a leader”
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