>As a company scales output, at some point in this graph the output per person from the large team should overtake the small team, otherwise why do we even have

>As a company scales output, at some point in this graph the output per person from the large team should overtake the small team, otherwise why do we even have large teams in the first place? Asymptotic growth. The net contribution of each new member approaches zero but never quite reaches it. For any small team a larger team can out produce them because they throw more bodies at the problem.