Small teams move faster

You can build big things with small teams. At Fancred, we beat Facebook to live video. They had 5,000 eningeers. We had 5.

Everything revolutionary eventually becomes table stakes, but when we launched the feature 8 years ago, having a social network with the ability to create a live stream was a game-changer.

We shipped the feature from a two-story, no-frills walkup office on Boylston Street.

Fancred won the battle, not the social media war, but the experience served as a compelling lesson in the power of small, focused teams to deliver outsized results.

Sometimes, less is truly more.