Growing Organizations Trade Nimbleness For Output

As an organization, city, or society grows, it must satisfy more stakeholders and by default becomes less able to make disruptive quick changes (less 'nimble'); but big companies often produce far more than they could when small—Apple at 10 people might be more exciting but couldn't make all those iPhones—so for judgment-heavy unconventional giving Open Philanthropy benefits from staying as small as possible, deliberately treating each hire as something only done with a really good reason.