The whole company is one person and one graphics card.
Thirteen projects in Linear. Three live products taking money, a fourth in production and posting daily for a paying customer. Every pull request reviewed, every deploy approved, every invoice sent from the same desk in Oakland. The workforce that makes this possible is software: agents that research, draft, publish, test, and audit while I sleep.
This is the ops reality of that arrangement. Not the vision-deck version. The version with the failure modes in it, because the failure modes are where all the actual lessons live.
Where this came from
I spent twenty-plus years in high-end audio, from a retail floor in Berkeley to running Sonus Faber for North America. The entire discipline of that industry is chasing a clean signal through a noisy chain. Somewhere around year eighteen I realized that was also a fair description of running a company, and that the noisy chain in my life was no longer analog.
