What are some good examples of orgs that have optimized to stay small in terms of headcount relative to impact? How do you incentivize/reward that?

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Snapchat. Less than 50 engineers like 4 years ago. Everyone I know who worked at snapchat is rich

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Right. I meant more like 9 years ago. I’ve lost track of time since the pandemic 😅

https://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2015/08/11/the-most-valuable-employees-snapchat-doubles-facebook/amp/

My fiancé worked at Snapchat in 2018 and they were over 1000 engineers at that time. They have a reputation for the opposite of this question, have a huge team to work on a relatively small product surface area.

Looks like they gave out 2 billion in stock in 2017
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/10/15617740/snapchat-two-billion-loss-evan-spiegel-stock-compensation-q1-wall-street

Do you know if Snapchat’s equity grants were disproportionately higher than other same state companies at the time?