Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) says he has more than 200 direct reports at Meta's superintelligence lab, and that it is by design:

"Yeah, I think more than 200."

"One of the design principles around this was making it very flat. Effectively, all the research that we hired into this group called TBD, they report directly to me."

"TBD is like literally anti-bureaucracy."

"So I don't need to be micromanaging you to do brilliant work. You're gonna be able to do that on your own."

"We have this kind of like pod structure where we have various pods and there's various technical leads of the pods who tie break on the technical decisions."

"From a quote unquote people management perspective or from a bureaucracy perspective, we're just anti-bureaucracy."

"I would be lying if I said I was the best manager to more than 200 people."

"They don't need managers. They need a great environment."

"They just need the room to cook."

- Alexandr Wang, Meta Chief AI Officer, in an interview with David Senra published October 11.