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Coordination Costs
The Stripe co-founders were candid about their failure to predict where the economy was heading. They also said they overspent on things like “coordination costs.” That’s not a term I’ve heard before, but I suspect it is a reflection of getting too big and too inefficient.
💬 Jessica Lessin
It’s a new term to me aswell - BUT recently on LInkedIN there was a meme running around - which used this graphic.
Coordination Costs
It’s pretty self explanatory. The formula is that for every person you add to an organisation, the number of potential conversations increases - a lot. If ‘n’ is the number of people in an organisation, the number of potential conversations is n-1 + n-2 + n-3 …. in other words …
3 people … 2 + 1 = 3 4 people … 3+2+1 = 6 5 people … 4+3+2+1 = 10 6 people … 5+4+3+2+1 = 15
And adding 1 person to a 10,000 person organisation adds 10,000 possible new lines of communication.
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