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Snippet- Sam Altman Warns Against Headcount Growth Without Output, Advocates Small Teams With Big Responsibility


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Grow People or Grow Output?


In this snippet, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, calls out a big-company trap: growing headcount without growing output.He argues for small teams, busy people, and giving researchers, engineers, and product builders huge responsibility.


Because when companies scale without shipping more, you get bloated meetings, slow decisions, and no real progress.OpenAIโ€™s approach?

๐Ÿ‘‰ Stay lean.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Do more things, not more meetings.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Keep high-impact people focused on building an internet-scale platform.


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