Published on November 2, 2025
On Linear’s blog about company profitability:
What holds you back is rarely team size – it’s the clarity of your focus, skill, and ability to execute. Larger teams mean slower progress, more management overhead, more meetings, more opinions, and usually dilution of vision and standards. Yet growing the team has somehow become a symbol of success.
I’ve seen this in practice. Smaller teams are more mobile and more focused with a clear eye on the prize. Founders incorrectly assume a correlation between the size of the team and the influence/money-making ability of the company.