9 out of 10 engineers can't state your strategy — and that team costs $1.4M a year
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-24
aakashgupta promoted his full podcast conversation with Tim, centered on what he calls the strategy crisis: teams are drowning in documents and starving for direction. At every company he's worked at, 9 out of 10 engineers couldn't state the team's strategy.
His math: a team of 5 engineers, 1 designer and 1 PM costs about $1.4M a year fully loaded — money pointed nowhere if nobody can state the strategy. The episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Substack.
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