“Meta is building the future of human connection.”
Does acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp qualify as building? Pretty much all feature development in Instagram has been photo copier work which feels like building the past instead of the future.
Category: San Francisco
After the hysteria a bunch of VCs whipped up over the weekend around the SVB collapse, questioning whether they actually do what they claim is more than justified.
Why am I not surprised that somebody like Marc Andreessen would be a NIMBY while at the same time being a hypocrite?
I was amazed at how closely this article about product development at Facebook tracks with how I approach it: “PMs are 100% accountable for the results of your team.”
I’m doubling as EM/PM for a bit and engineers in my team fully own some of our projects. This is a combination of high demand and high trust that I think is working out well.
but I like working with PMs who went into it through channels other than the official ones, and are motivated out of their passion for building things and solving problems. Not because they feel it’s something they’re supposed to do, or because they think it’s prestigious, or because it is the default path from whatever elite school they went to.
That is an excellent and very opinionated list of criteria of how to gauge a product organization. I’m not sure whether I’ve seen any that hit all or even many of these. If you know of one, let me know.
http://dangrover.com/blog/2020/01/20/a-sanity-test-for-large-groups-of-pms.html
It’s nice that these startups guys take a public schooling so well. It would be nice if we could see more of that on Clubhouse instead of the endless rows of bad panels.
https://www.newcomer.co/p/founders-fund-duo-outmatched-by-sf
“This is all to say that Paul Graham is an effective marketer and practitioner, but a profoundly unserious public intellectual. His attempts to grapple with the major issues of the present, especially as they intersect with his personal legacy, are so mired in intuition and incuriosity that they’re at best a distraction, and worst a real obstacle to understanding our paths forward.”
An utter and total indictment of Paul Graham who of course is impervious to such things.
Reading this account by the former COO Francoise Brougher, I’m disappointed to learn how badly Pinterest failed at Diversity and Inclusion.
The Zendesk story of how they built a globally distributed company is quite amazing, but there are many more like this by now.
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
An excellent overview of the issues around Slate Star Codex without having to read a single word of the blog yourself. That’s an excellent service.