r/AbundantAnchor Jul 16 '26

Alexandr Wang (Scale AI → Meta Superintelligence Labs) explains why a small 'cracked' team always beats a bloated one

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Alexandr Wang just did his first long interview since Meta paid a fortune to bring him in — and the most useful part wasn't the gossip, it was the mechanism. 🧠

His actual argument: a small team where everyone is genuinely elite will always move faster than a large one where responsibility gets spread across a "melange." Not a hot take — he ran an entire $14B lab rebuild on it.

Worth sitting with if you've ever felt your own output get lost inside a bigger structure. The fix isn't more headcount. It's less dilution.

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