A tech founder says he was 'pretty wrong' about lean teams in the AI era
Source: Business Insider ·
Yasser Elsaid, Chatbase CEO, says his startup is doubling its 40-person team because he believes AI still needs humans to build great products.
From the source
Chatbase CEO Yasser Elsaid.Courtesy of ChatbaseA startup founder said that leaner teams may not be the right approach for every company in the AI era.Chatbase CEO Yasser Elsaid said he plans to double his 40-person team within six months.AI models are "extremely smart and capable, but not fully independent," he told Business Insider.As some companies race to use AI to shrink their teams, one startup founder is going against the grain by planning to hire more people.Yasser Elsaid, the founder of customer-service AI startup Chatbase, said the company now has 40 employees and plans to double its team over the next six months."I might have been wrong about building with a lean team in the age of AI," Elsaid wrote in a post on X this month.Elsaid previously embraced smaller teams. In a LinkedIn post in January, he said Chatbase, a San Francisco-based startup that lets companies build AI agents for customer service and support, had stayed at 17 full-time employees for much of its first…