Steve Jobs kept about 100 product people and designers reporting directly to him. He met them once a year to share roadmaps, review what worked and what didn't, and get their ground-level feedback. This direct line to specialists gave him the perspective he couldn't get alone.
Apple had an elite team of 100 people that reported to co-founder Steve Jobs. He needed to have a better sense for what was happening boots on the ground. So he had individual contributors such as product people, designers, and he would gather these people once a year into an annual summit. At the summit, he would reveal to them what's coming on the product roadmap, what went well, what didn't go so well, and he would really value the opinions of all these people. This was a genius move for Jobs because he was just one person and he can't be everywhere at once. So he had additional 100 people that he can go to when he needed something else, and this was one of the reasons why Apple became one of the most valuable companies in the world.
