This talk will share key learnings from building and shipping Spaces within Twitter, and how those learnings can be applied to any new team looking to move quickly within a larger organization. It will focus on how we were able to gain developer velocity by applying simple principles to our team culture, focusing around simplicity, autonomy, and collaboration. As we go through the principles, we will explain how they each contributed to the team's success, and how it can be applied to other teams in similar situations.