Squad Model

Biological Parallel

Bee colonies organize as autonomous foraging squads (10-30 bees) that self-select tasks through waggle dance recruitment, while maintaining guild membership across the entire hive for specialized roles like nursing or guard duty. This dual structure—mission-focused squads with functional guilds—enables both rapid response to opportunities and deep expertise transfer. Spotify's model mirrors how social insects balance local autonomy with knowledge sharing across the superorganism.