Business Development

Head of Facebook App: "Building the Discovery Engine" April 27, 2022

I’ve hosted events where only two people showed up. You have to keep at it. Big things start small, but when you have all these pressures and limited resources in a growing company, it’s tempting to quickly ditch anything that’s not working. You can’t hopscotch over the hard bits, as much as you might want to

Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft July 24, 1997

Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? March 30, 2012

Amazon: How do we keep experimenting in superfast delivery? September 19, 2013

Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really applies only to me)

Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring October 10, 2017