Reflections on computers & humans
Miguel Carranza
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AI shouldn't shrink headcount. It should shrink teams
Another thought leadership post about why teams should be smaller. I know, very original. But there’s a version of this conversation that’s actually useful, because the point is easy to misunderstand. When we talk about smaller teams at RevenueCat, the goal isn’t to stop hiring or to pretend AI means...
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100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org. This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people....
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight
2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. The pace of change in our industry has been wild. The concept of vibe coding is not even a...
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The Long Run
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever finish a marathon. If you had asked my mother, though, she would have told you it was a thousand times more likely I’d build a billion-dollar tech company than finish a...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s...