Smaller teams = 10x faster results 🚀 #growth #businessstrategy #success

23 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, Eric Siu argues that modern product development works best with ultra‑small teams—essentially a single product manager paired with a single engineer, which he dubs “2‑slice teams.” He references Jeff Bezos’s classic “two‑pizza” rule, noting that today the optimal size is even smaller. Siu explains that larger groups (four‑to‑five people) suffer from coordination drag and internal politics, as each member brings multiple ideas that must be reconciled, slowing progress. He illustrates the speed advantage with a anecdote about Ubersuggest, where fewer people enabled rapid deployment. The overall message is that minimizing team size dramatically accelerates delivery and reduces complexity.

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So this guy says, I got a lot of pushback for saying that one product manager and one engineer can now be the entire team. Remember Amazon's Jeff Bezos? He used to say, 2-pizza teams, right? We want to have 2-pizza teams. Now today it's 2-slice teams, okay? So you can only get 2 slices for the team. We have our agent builders team right now, right? And then everyone has their own project. So most people are just working on their own on a project. Maybe there's someone else paired with them, but we have one team where there's 4 or 5 people on it. That team is the slowest one because there's so much drag that comes from coordination. And so, so has so many— like, you know, if you have 5 ideas, I have 5 ideas, someone else has 5 ideas, and then Noah has 5 ideas too, that's 20 ideas. And everyone wants to get their ideas forward, right? I have found firsthand experience that when you, when you have— start to have more than 2 people building these things, they start to get really complex and there's politics start to build even at such a small size.
I was talking to one of my team members the other day that like used to run Ubersuggest back in the day. How'd you do it? I was like, with very few people, fewer people means faster deployment.