10-person Spawn ships 77,000 changes a month, spending 30x payroll on AI tokens
garrytan · x · 2026-11-01
Garry Tan amplifies Spawn founder's essay "How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World": the 10-person startup spends 30x payroll on AI tokens and shipped 77,000 substantial changes in 30 days — roughly 108 per hour around the clock — shipping nearly as much as Anthropic. His takeaway: the way these founders build is what's hard to replicate, not the software itself.
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