Ultra-specialization allows small teams to be exponentially more productive than individuals trying to do everything

Eben references Adam Smith's pin factory example: 'if you have one person who's trying to, you know, melt the the the ore and, you know, form the metal and make the wire and make pins all by themself, little push pins, they're going to be very inefficient and they'll be lucky if they can make one pin in a day. But if you take a little team of people and they all specialize in the key steps... A small group of people can make thousands and thousands of pins in a day and be many 10 or a 100 or a thousand times more efficient.'