A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do?
Monday morning I don't talk about the startup—I ask every engineer one question: What's the one thing slowing you down that we should cut today?
The 3-person startup isn't the story—they're just a mirror showing us our own bloat. When I ran Square, I learned that you have to make every single detail perfect and limit the number of details. That's the job. Not panic about competitors...