Dennis Farandy

former software engineer who spent most of the time doing “product”

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Career goals often include a big title, a large scope, a lot of money, etc. but perhaps a more gratifying career goal for many would be to simply be in a company & a role in which you never experience Sunday night blues.

[a16z @a16z]

@McKinsey @pmarca 5/ "The engineers working on self-driving cars are the most important people at Tesla. Elon talks about them all the time, he talks to them all the time, and they’re basically the leaders in the company. The people working on that stuff at traditional auto OEMs are not."

[a16z @a16z]

@McKinsey @pmarca 4/ "I can always tell if there’s a real technologist in the room. The real technologist is not sitting at the table. They’re sitting against the wall."

[a16z @a16z]

@McKinsey @pmarca 3/ "The problem that big, classic Fortune 500 companies have is the same problem they had 20 years ago. That problem is that the true technologists inside so many big companies are not the primary people at the company. They’re not treated as first-class citizens."

[a16z @a16z]

@McKinsey @pmarca 2/ "The Harvard MBAs left for a while, at least until after the new hills were discovered—smartphones, social networking, Web 2.0, cloud [computing]. Then those people came back into tech. That’s why the nerds are predictive and the MBAs aren’t."

[a16z @a16z]

@McKinsey @pmarca 1/ "Whatever the smart engineers work on is going to get better. It may or may not be commercially successful, but it is going to improve."

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Trying to collect popular product aphorisms e.g.

If you're not embarrassed by the 1st version of your product, you've launched too late
-Reid Hoffman

Make something people want
-YC

Make sure your product is 10x better than your competitors
-Bill Gross?

Which ones did I miss?

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

As a PM leader, in the first

30 days:
Understand org/process
Build rapport
Contribute to a feature

60 days:
Understand the products
Build relationships
Contribute to process

90 days:
Understand customers
Build deep trust
Contribute to strategy

Most vital, act based on context

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

A brief thread on

Impact = (Execution ^ Strategy) × Market

for product people:

[Daring Fireball @daringfireball]

Apple Support: ‘Capture Content Outside the Camera Frame on iPhone’: https://t.co/1Wuw9uZRw2

[Daring Fireball @daringfireball]

Apple Releases iOS 13.1.2 Three Days After 13.1.1: https://t.co/3TT4salEPj

[Chris Maddern @chrismaddern]

This video is more dramatic than the actual movie “The Social Network”

[Dennis Farandy @DennisFarandy]

@theTunnelBear

[Dennis Farandy @DennisFarandy]

@gojektech hey I got problem when topup gopay. Can you please help? i check with my bank about this and all seems ok, and even I can use the mobile virtual account to other vendor, can you please help check thanks!

[Albert Endi @albertendi]

Jenius

[Sam Altman @sama]

A thing I learned advising startups that generalizes: people get the most upset when you tell them true things they wish were false.

[Dennis Farandy @DennisFarandy]

@MNCPlayID gmn cara klo saya mau upgrade internet? Ada sales yg bisa di contact?

[Dennis Farandy @DennisFarandy]

Thanks 2016! I learned so many things, fought so many battle and made so many mistakes yet He… https://t.co/CH7ksGMLYA

[Dennis Farandy @DennisFarandy]

@lynxluna ups ketauann hihihi

[NUFF @nuffsaidny]

Websites that went down b/c of this morning's DDoS attack include:

• Twitter
• SoundCloud
• Spotify
• Netflix
• Reddit
• Disqus
• PayPal