“Technically, one person can accomplish much more now. I would even say you don't really need to have separate Android developers, iOS developers. One front-end developer can do things. You can even have one developer covering front-end, back-end, possibly data science as well… So a team can be of two people, probably.”
Cheeky Pint · Startups & Venture · November 2026
Context
Collison asked how AI changes hiring and team size. Storonsky says small teams can now do what larger ones did, though he admits Revolut still runs on specialist teams and has not changed its structure yet.
Transcript
…people, based on advantages and disadvantages of people. We build all the systems of KPIs, roadmap, processes, hiring, performance management. And now it might be all redundant, right, because of AI in two, three years. So it's kind of, you know, we're all reinventing how the company should work.
How has it changed how you hire either at an overall company level or at an individual team level? Like are the eight-person teams, should they now be three-person teams, or can just you have higher aspirations for what an eight-person team can accomplish? I
mean, technically, one person can accomplish much more now. I would even say you don't really need to have separate entrepreneur developers, iOS developers. One front-end developer can do things. You can even have one developer covering front-end, back-end, possibly data science as well. So you can have one person doing all aspects of the product. Should probably still have a designer, although it's so much easier to design. So one developer can do a design as well. So a team can be of two people, probably.
But you work in this relatively standardized way of Product bets where you put a small team on something to initially test it. Has the size of that product bet initial team changed? And shouldn't it change, if not?
I mean, not yet, to be honest with you. So we're still operating in the old framework. Isn't
that very old-fashioned of you? Yes,
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