Below the critical threshold, the magic number in the equation above, incentives encourage individuals to unite around loonshots. When group size crosses that magic number, incentives shift toward favoring a focus on careers: the politics of promotion (#1 → #2 in the diagram below). For typical group structures, that number may be roughly 150. But by adjusting the parameters of structure—equity fraction, fitness, management span, compensation growth rate—we can raise that magic number (which is why the dashed line is angled; if we couldn’t adjust the number then the dashed line would be purely
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