# I'm Waseem Daher, Cofounder and CEO at pilot.com. AMA!

**URL:** https://gorelay.co/t/im-waseem-daher-cofounder-and-ceo-at-pilot-com-ama/519
**Category:** AMAs
**Tags:** services, founder-led-sales, goal-setting, team-structures, past-guests
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://gorelay.co/t/im-waseem-daher-cofounder-and-ceo-at-pilot-com-ama/519 "2021-01-07T19:16:44Z")
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### Author: ![waseem](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/gorelay.co/waseem/32/397_2.png) [@waseem](https://gorelay.co/u/waseem)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://gorelay.co/t/im-waseem-daher-cofounder-and-ceo-at-pilot-com-ama/519/13 "2021-01-14T19:40:47Z")

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> [@rajaraman](#):
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> — How do you navigate the trade-offs between the pace of decentralization vs. the predictability of centralization, across different stages?

This is super-hard. The most elegant solution is: if you can keep the team as small as possible, you actually get both—you get centralized decision-making but high velocity.

I’ve always been impressed by how much a small but dedicated team can accomplish, and arguably the best strategy is “Can we figure out how to do this _without_ having to add a bunch of heads to the team?”

Absent that, I’m a fan of Amazon/Jeff Bezos’s strategy of “Two Pizza teams” on this (a team that’s small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas): can you assemble a small team **with a clear mandate and clear decision-making authority** and point them at the problem?

I think the place this gets frustrating is when you get the worst of both worlds: decentralized teams that move slowly because of their significant coordination overhead (because they’re not actually empowered to do the things they need to do)

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