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The Tiny Team Doctrine
Tim's case for why headcount is no longer the constraint on ambition.
How it works
- 1Six people, three developers, 20 coding agents.
- 2No intention of building a multi-hundred employee company, because execution no longer requires it.
- 3$250K and 3 months now delivers what $2 million and 18 months delivered a decade ago.
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