Mullenweg: Scaling from 20 to 50 people breaks brute-force collaboration
Matt Mullenweg · #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key · Jan 5, 2021 · at 1:00:43
Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, explains why growing from 20 to 50 employees is the hardest scaling transition in an organization.
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“Going from 20 to 50 people, you lose that ability to brute force the collaboration and getting everyone on the same page, and you really need to start communicating in a way which is, Well understood across the existing people, but also at that point, you're probably scaling pretty quickly, and so you need to be able to onboard people to this institutional knowledge that was built up by a lot of people working closely together for many years, and bring that new person in really effectively, and get them to understanding.”
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