The Death of the Unicorn: Why Your 100-Person Team is a Liability

Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · Feb 5, 2026 · 7m

"I’m an engineer, not a philosopher.

I build robots for bomb squads and bio-printers for organs.

And I’m telling you: the physics of business have changed."

In this episode, we dismantle the biggest vanity metric in the startup world: Headcount.

A few years ago, I built a robot to stop a worker’s hands from shaking while disarming a live device.

The goal wasn’t "innovation."

The goal was to send him home safe. That wasn’t just automation—it was Leverage.

Most founders today are treating AI like a faster typewriter. They are looking for 10% efficiency gains.

This is a mistake that will kill…