Read with me - #5
We cared about the developer experience and had the creativity to throw away assumptions about what it was supposed to be and build how we wanted to work. Everyone else tried to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs.
Really nice read. How value and user centric approach paved the way.
2. Paul Graham - Founder Mode.
In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. But we can infer the existence of another mode from the dismay of founders who've tried it, and the success of their attempts to escape from it.
3. Every Leader knows AI is the future.
There is a book as well - The AI-Driven Leader. Essentially it is about how AI can help leaders to make decisions based on a lot of data.
“Your ability to think strategically is the difference between growing your business, and going out of business,” he told me. “But if you’re doing it on the less than 1% of information you can recall, you’re playing too small.”
4. Avoid "easy" things.
Working on hard problems is more rewarding (physiologically as well). A good reminder to be 10x more selective - choose things you work on carefully.
We cared about the developer experience and had the creativity to throw away assumptions about what it was supposed to be and build how we wanted to work. Everyone else tried to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs.
Really nice read. How value and user centric approach paved the way.
2. Paul Graham - Founder Mode.
In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. But we can infer the existence of another mode from the dismay of founders who've tried it, and the success of their attempts to escape from it.
3. Every Leader knows AI is the future.
There is a book as well - The AI-Driven Leader. Essentially it is about how AI can help leaders to make decisions based on a lot of data.
“Your ability to think strategically is the difference between growing your business, and going out of business,” he told me. “But if you’re doing it on the less than 1% of information you can recall, you’re playing too small.”
4. Avoid "easy" things.
Working on hard problems is more rewarding (physiologically as well). A good reminder to be 10x more selective - choose things you work on carefully.