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

Cto of namestone. Does side stuff sometimes.

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

I didn’t know that, though! Pretty impressive for a product that got to mainstream!

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