It takes a huge amount of coordination across the product teams, so everyone is responsible for collaborating intensely with one another. Even though the coordination might seem like a handful, having fewer teams makes them ruthlessly prioritize around the most important initiatives. There’s no useless work. This structure also creates a nice redundancy throughout the company, so that important information about a single product is not stuck in the head of one person. If someone leaves, they don’t need to worry about all that ingrained knowledge going with them. If one team is busy with work,
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