If they immediately tasked 20 or 50 people to the project, it would be far more absurd than starting with five. Ideally a project like this starts out from a small team and is given more resources only when it's needed.
Trying to change the paradigm about how the planet connects and share information is an incredibly challenging task.
Exactly the kind of task you want a small team doing the initial research and planning on otherwise it'll be bikeshed central in every meeting, surely.
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If they immediately tasked 20 or 50 people to the project, it would be far more absurd than starting with five. Ideally a project like this starts out from a small team and is given more resources only when it's needed.
Trying to change the paradigm about how the planet connects and share information is an incredibly challenging task.
At twitter's scale, 5 people are a team you put together to decide if they are going to migrate to X library/framework for an internal tool.
This is not a task where you want to be frugal in terms of resources.
Exactly the kind of task you want a small team doing the initial research and planning on otherwise it'll be bikeshed central in every meeting, surely.