BUILD A BILLION-DOLLAR STARTUP WITH A MINIMAL TEAM THANKS TO AI

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Instagram sold for $1B with 13 people. WhatsApp had 55. PostHog ships with pods of two to six, and Basecamp runs profitable software with roughly 30 and no managers. The observable pattern is to design for systems over headcount. In practice, that means your engineer answers the support ticket instead of waiting for “customer success,” your designer pushes copy tweaks straight to production instead of filing a Jira ticket, and your founder still writes the onboarding emails because it keeps them close to the user.