Hey r/EntrepreneurRideAlong,

I’m a long-time entrepreneur and current CEO of an enterprise technology firm. Over the past 20 years I've been in the trenches building and scaling 6 startups, and have personally closed over $250M of sales along the way.

One of the key lessons I've learned is that smaller teams with more autonomy innovate faster than top-down hierarchies. I've tested this "small autonomous teams" model across my companies and while consulting for Fortune 500s. The results have been game-changing.

I've been working on my first book for the past 2 years, called "Smaller is Better" and I'm looking to get some feedback from you guys. It's a playbook for structuring small cross-functional teams, empowering them to make decisions, and using techniques like real-time feedback and continuous improvement to move faster.

The book comes out today, and I'm offering free chapters for this community on real-time feedback and radical transparency for anyone who's interested. Just shoot me a message or comment and I'll send them over for your review.

I'd love to hear this group's take on the small autonomous teams approach and any challenges you foresee in implementing it. What's the biggest bottleneck slowing your startup down right now? Let me know in the comments and I'll do my best to address it.

Thank you guys!