The '2 pizza' days are over. Here's what everyone in business and tech is saying about team size.
Tech companies are shifting toward smaller, more agile teams as AI tools increase individual productivity. Executives like Instagram's Adam Mosseri are moving away from larger groups to leaner pods to improve decision-making speed.
Why it matters
This trend signals a fundamental change in corporate structure and workforce management driven by the integration of artificial intelligence.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said his division has cut the size of its teams in half. Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley is awash in talk about tiny teams. Many are citing AI explicitly when they talk about why they need smaller teams. The changes mean Jeff Bezos ' famed "two pizza" may no longer hold true. Silicon Valley's next big idea is actually quite small. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos famously suggested that to maintain productive meetings, everyone present should be able to be fed with two pizzas. In the age of AI, teams across business and tech are shrinking . Some executives have said that's why they slashed jobs. Others just want more streamlined divisions. It remains to be seen if OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's prediction of 10-person companies with billion-dollar valuations will come true.
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