[author here] Getting 5 engineers was actually a huge ask. Just a year earlier the entire Ads Interfaces org had 5 engineers in it (I was #6). That was 5 engin

[author here] Getting 5 engineers was actually a huge ask. Just a year earlier the entire Ads Interfaces org had 5 engineers in it (I was #6). That was 5 engineers for all API and front end code for a $4B/year revenue company. Facebook has a history of using tiny teams to lift impossible mountains - e.g. FB Photos was originally written by two engineers and overtook Flickr, the current leader, with just that investment.