Bezos' "Two-Pizza rule"

Bezos says that teams and meetings should be small enough that everyone can be fed with two pizzas. Easy for a big dog to say that, but what do you guys think?


this was on LinkedIn top news, but I thought it'd be better to discuss here.

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CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
But what happens if I individually can eat two pizzas? I can put down a costco pizza in 6 minutes and 43 seconds so you better come prepared to these quick ass meetings lol.
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
Theyre all personal pizzas if you put your mind to it
CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
Never met a pizza that wasn't personal. I can eat like a tank. 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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I love that you've timed this. My kind of people. 
CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
I’m the type of person that wins food challenges and gets kicked out of all you can eat buffets without trying. And you would never tell just by looking at me. One time I entered a speed eating contest for pizza and that was my time… best part, I simply entered because I was hungry and wanted a snack lol. 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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The last sentence has me dead lol. Sry I'm a little hungry let me go ahead and competitively slam down a whole pizza in six minutes. Amazing. 
CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
I’m not kidding. There was a random hot dog eating contest at work a few months before the pandemic. They had hot dogs for the spectators as well. I wasn’t paying attention and was just eating the hot dogs on the side (I missed breakfast that day) and apparently - according to my disgusted coworker who watched me - I ate 2 more than the winner of the contest lol. 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Ok noted...when we all meet up and go for dinner, don't sit by Meech because he will eat your food.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Bezos is the definition of billionaire blowhard but I don't disagree... I can't stand when a company needs to give everyone and their mother a seat at the table when it comes to discussions or decisions. We have designated roles for a reason and some people's opinions are more valuable than others.
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
glad i can now add "billionaire blowhard" to my vocabulary 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Yr welcome 
OraclesBitterRedPill
Executive
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Application Sales Manager, Enterprise Accounts
Oh you’d HATE Oracle, then. Amirite, @generalcorp
cw95
Politicker
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Sales Development Lead
Jeff Bezos is that teacher that says they are having a 'party' for the class and brings in one pizza for being good students for the year.
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
eat the chalk if you want dessert
ExtremeVibeChecker44
Arsonist
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Inside Sales
What if I enjoy eating chalk
CaneWolf
Politicker
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
And that's how you ended up in sales!
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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I mean does each person get an entire slice? How thin are the slices? I have questions.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Regular cut or party cut? This is important shit.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
Cheap bastard probably doesn't allow crazy bread either.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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And if he does he definitely doesn't shell out the 25 cents for dipping sauce.
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
I feel like the minimum is 2 slices per person 
Safety3rd
Fire Starter
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Sr. Account Executive
Oh fuck. I forgot about crazy bread!!
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
No one puts crazy bread in a corner.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Now I want crazy bread...

I've had friends say - coups, we're getting pizza - why do we need breadsticks/cheese sticks? They're no longer friends.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
The way God intended 💯
Safety3rd
Fire Starter
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Sr. Account Executive
Coups, you don't need that kind of negativity in your life.  
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Exactly why I punt them to the curb.
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
Thats messed up. glad you moved on to better things
cw95
Politicker
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Sales Development Lead
i'm confused, I don't know the stats on the average slices of pizza people eat but surely (when in the mood) one person can eat one pizza. Mad when you have a company with hundreds of thousands of employees. No wonder he stays rich when he gives that amount of colleagues a couple of pizzas. 
SammySandbags
Politicker
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Account Executive
There is too much up in the air right now. Too much at stake
SADNES5
Politicker
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down voters are marketing spies
TBH, Bezos worked on Wall Street as a quant, saw what bloat does. Knows and understands that meetings are to bounce ideas, and challenge each other, can't do that with too many people. Meetings for other companies are presentations. 

Honestly, I'd like to end up with some of that big tech money.


thesecretsauce
Politicker
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Business Development
Any pizza Is a personal pizza if you try hard enough…… so 2 people max 🤣🤣🤣
FlowerPower
Opinionated
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Trainer
Keeping meetings small makes for a more efficient work enviro, I think. Nothing worse for me than attending a meeting I could have skipped to get stuff done. I also like everyone in the meeting to participate and provide value without extending the meeting too long! So, I have to agree to mister Bezos this one time.
goose
Politicker
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Sales Executive
I dislike meetings in general.
Boutdamtime
Politicker
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Client Executive
I don’t hate JB. I met someone that had personal meetings with him at Amazon and this is true. He hates useless meetings and when necessary he likes to keep them small. Also cool story about prime video: he completely disagreed that there was a market and was completely wrong but he let the person running it give it a shot. They fail forward there.
Woody
Politicker
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Business Development Executive
I'm good for one pizza myself so....
salesandstrategy
Opinionated
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Senior Account Executive
For strategy high level absolutely, for sales team related meetings it's often not optimal structure, especially as company size increases. 
Lambda
Tycoon
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Sales Consultant
i mean i can down one myself soooo there is that
CaneWolf
Politicker
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
Jeff Bezos is just being your typical cheap, rich guy sociopath with this.
Cyberjarre
Politicker
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BDR
He was in there for tax evasion, waiting extradition to the US. He definitely got Epstein'ed.
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