Lieutenants are the limiting reagent

Sebastian Bensusanblog.sbensu.com3 min read

Bensusan argues big tech ships few products for its size because the real bottleneck is lieutenants, agentic people who push through blockers outside their job description, and they grow scarcer as companies grow.

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