Scaling Up: The Game-Changing Shift in Company Structure at Series B Stage | David Sacks Craft

Name: Scaling Up: The Game-Changing Shift in Company Structure at Series B Stage | David Sacks Craft
Uploaded: 2023-10-29T14:15:02+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: David Sacks breaks down how companies restructure at Series B, growing from 50 to 125 employees. Engineering expands from 12 to 40 people, split into…

29 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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David Sacks breaks down how companies restructure at Series B, growing from 50 to 125 employees. Engineering expands from 12 to 40 people, split into web, client apps, and platform teams. New layers of management and dedicated QA emerge as individual roles become full departments.

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And just going from 50 to 125 employees, it's remarkable how in order to do that, every single function that used to just be one IC now becomes a team of people. And that means that one of the big things you're doing at this sort of Series B stage is building out your mid-level management, which simply didn't exist at the Series A stage. So let me give you some examples. So in R&D, we're going to go from roughly 12 headcount to about 40. And if you look under the CTO, we're now going to have a web team. We're going to have a team of client apps. We're going to have a team for platform or core services. We're going to introduce a new QA function