Kaling International currently employs exactly four people: Kaling, her producing partner Jessica Kumai Scott, and their two assistants. And yet somehow it is working on nearly two dozen projects—17 shows and six movies, to be precise.

By contrast, the production companies Kaling cites as her inspiration, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, employ dozens.

And as her success and lack of social plans might suggest, Kaling has a particular knack for efficiency. “She can outline an entire season of television on the back of an envelope in the time it takes someone else to come up with one joke,” says B.J. Novak, her former Office co-writer and close friend.

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