# What 13 people across three product lines taught me about scope

*Notes · Dec 08, 2025 · 7 min read*

> Scaling Cybernet's consumer AI portfolio meant cutting half of what we wanted to build. The discipline of subtraction.

*By Benjamin Pollack.*

Scaling Cybernet's consumer AI portfolio meant cutting half of what we wanted to build. The discipline of subtraction.

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