David Sacks on what changes when startups scale from Series A to Series B. A 50-person company grows to 125 employees. R&D goes from 12 people to 40, splitting into specialized teams like web, client apps, and platform services, with QA added for the first time.
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 and 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.
