@GergelyOrosz: Consider for a moment how Airtable is (was?) ~930 people. Bending Spoons, operating ~20 products (incl Evernote, Meetup…
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Gergely Orosz 观察到 Airtable 裁员后仅约 930 人，而运营约 20 个产品（含 Evernote、Meetup、Vimeo 等）的 Bending Spoons 人数不到 900，凸显以极小团队运营多产品的新商业模式趋势。
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Consider for a moment how Airtable is (was?) ~930 people. Bending Spoons, operating ~20 products (incl Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, Eventbrite, WeTransfer etc) is smaller than 900 AFAIK (!!)
Their business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.
Federico Simionato (@fedesimio): Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team.
This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better.
For Airtable, better is about to look like:
- A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already
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