"I think we took a step each day," Lee said. "We learned from our play in games and in practice - what we needed to improve - and took a look at those things. Like Patrick said, it's about building our structure in all three zones and playing as a unit of five."
Startups often make the mistake of hiring a growth team far too soon, said Meta's chief marketing officer, Alex Schultz. Schultz, speaking on an episode of the "Twenty Minute VC" podcast published Saturday, said that founders often rush to delegate growth when it should be their top priority. At companies with only a few hundred employees, the entire team should be focused on driving growth - not a specialized unit.
In many enterprise environments, when software delivery slows down, the knee-jerk response is to add people. More developers. More project managers. More oversight. But in most cases, this response leads to the opposite effect: increased misalignment, heavier process layers, and slower time to value. Progress tends to come from the way teams are structured and supported, rather than from their size.