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?
Fire half your engineers, hire three small teams of three people each, and tell them to eat your lunch—then acquire the ones that succeed.
In 2003, eBay was the giant. They had $180 million to buy EachNet, thousands of engineers, global infrastructure, a proven model. I launched Taobao with a tiny team working from my apartment in Hangzhou. People thought I was crazy. 'How can...