> Most small startups (by which I mean fewer than 20 people) don’t have enough work to justify splitting the team into frontend and backend components I disag

> Most small startups (by which I mean fewer than 20 people) don’t have enough work to justify splitting the team into frontend and backend components I disagree. Most startups have a ton of work, but they often don't have the money or the structure to support a large engineering team. Those switch hitters that traverse the stack are really important for these situations. There's an added benefit, too. Since one gets to that level by having done a lot of different jobs in a lot of depth, that "macro" view tends to be extremely valuable in sustaining the technology through growth.