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Boz showed that Facebook’s senior management knew exactly what Facebook was doing. Then he argued that Facebook should step back from all this “optimizing and driving,” instead letting people have greater input and more control over the content they see. But nothing changed.
Sarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: The explosive memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read
Camp and Kalanick were both Super Founders. Before Uber, Camp founded StumbleUpon, the first web-discovery platform. It enabled users to find new web content with a single click and quickly attracted angel investors, including Brad O’Neill, Tim Ferriss, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, and Mitch Kapor, along with venture capital firms like First Round
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Around the same time, Martin, who was based in Google’s Singapore office in 2015, was building out a no-frills leadership workshop based on how Google trains its own leaders, and on state-of-the-art research about startups.
Joshua Yellin • The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face
Many months into Burbn, Kevin and Mike realized the product was getting too complex, and going to run straight into Foursquare—a location-sharing app that was rocketing into success at the time. It was time to refocus. The team looked at the best features of the product, oriented around photos, and stripped everything else out.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Julie Zhuo (Facebook) | TNW Conference | Building with creative confidence
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