Sam Altman says small teams with the right agent stack can outrun experience
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-07-28
Sam Altman says startup winners increasingly come from tool fluency rather than years of experience.
In a clip from Startup School 2026, he argues that tech progress arrives in waves where faster cycles and lower costs let small teams outproduce larger organizations. He compares the current moment to the dot-com era and the App Store wave, and says a four-person team with the right agent stack can now do work that once took an entire department.
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