Small, mission-focused teams (e.g., an engineer, a designer, and a PM) that LinkedIn assembles under the LinkedIn's Full-Stack Builder Model to attack one problem for about a quarter, then disband and re-form around a new problem. Tomer Cohen models the structure on Navy SEAL small-unit doctrine: members are cross-trained across disciplines rather than each holding a single narrow specialty, so the pod can move from research through launch without hand-offs between separate functional teams.
Differs from the Spotify Squad Model in duration and composition: squads are long-lived teams aligned to a persistent mission area, while pods are temporary (~quarter-long) and explicitly staffed with builders capable of covering each other's function.