Scaling businesses: how I learned to embrace the growing pains

In the 1990s, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar introduced the concept of the Dunbar number. After noticing a correlation between primates’ brain sizes and their average social group size, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain no more than 150 genuine, stable relationships. Or, as he puts it, “the number of people you would not … Continue reading Scaling businesses: how I learned to embrace the growing pains