Dunbar's Number
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
20VC
5 statements about Dunbar's Number, every show
Blomfield: Small-group social networks require non-ad monetization models
“A social network that kind of constrained itself to that smaller group might be really interesting, but Then you have to find a different way to monetize, because you're not getting as many eyeballs, as many hours of viewership, therefore your ad revenue goes …”
Dignan: Large corporations do not exist; they are interconnected 150-person Dunbar groups
“I mean, there's no such thing as a big company, really. I think it's the main thing I deal with when Folks ask me about doing this at scale is like, there's no such thing as Apple or Amazon, right? Like that's not actually a real thing. There are groups of. 15…”
Josh Wolfe: High Modern Mobility Makes Ostracizing Cheaters Less Effective Than in Ancestral Times
“In our ancestral environment you know, when you go to like a Dunbar's number of, I don't know, a 150 people, you had a smaller group of people. And so it was more effective to punish a cheater. And they would be publicly ostracized, you know, from a small grou…”
Quarles: 150 Employees Is a Company's Most Significant Scaling Breakpoint
“Companies tend to break at 50 people, because it's like, you used to be able to just get everybody in the room, and like shout at them, or put them in a Slack channel, and tell them what to do, and you knew every single person, and you could direct everything …”