# small teams
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6:48Small teams over big bureaucracyAl Elliott: So let's talk about the tweet that caught your eye, or that caught my eye, was the one about small teams. So I want to get into how you, why you decided to go small teams, but just give us the context. What iEP 189 · 17 Apr 2025·interview· 6:48–8:298:29Why small teams win on engineering velocityJames Hawkins: I'd say there are 2 things that led to this decision. The overarching theme was our product strategy is to build every single piece of software that a software team needs, which means like a ton of stuff. EP 189 · 17 Apr 2025·interview· 8:29–13:25
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