The Two-Pizza Rule
In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, instilled the following rule:
- "every internal team should be small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas"
He wasn't skimping on catering - instead, he purposefully wanted to create teams that were efficient.
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