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I think this is stupid. Building a business shouldn’t be about hiring people to fit some platonic form of a company. You should hire people based on a market n
by whall6 5y ago
I think this is stupid. Building a business shouldn’t be about hiring people to fit some platonic form of a company.
You should hire people based on a market need for that role. While I agree that this is the org chart that most often organically arises, it’s not because CEOs read this article on sub stack.
This is about as useful of information as telling me how to decorate my office space when I have a 50 person company.
- zug_zug 5y agoAgreed. It feels very "one-size-fits-all" in a technical landscape that is constantly changing. Some products are exponentially more backend-focused (twilio), some exponentially more frontend-focused (salesforce?). I don't know enough about other departments to say for sure if these are universally valid numbers, but I doubt it. Definitely worked for enough C-level people who said "We now need a 6-person data team in our startup because my friend Bob said so, and he's a big deal" or whatever the trend of the day was, to find such prescriptive templates questionable at best and dangerous at worst.