David Ko

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

@jmj Just like copying someone's CS project and changing a few variable names. Embarrassing yes, but could have saved days / weeks of development.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

@JamesClear Grit

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Prediction: 80% of jobs today will go away within the next 20 years. Computer programmers will become the new low-skilled workers.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Ambiguity of "tech company" is largely due to conflation of disruption with tech. Companies today must increasingly adopt tech enabled operations or face extinction.

[Stratechery @stratechery]

What Is a Tech Company?

https://t.co/aW9SOd4G0x

The question of "What is a tech company" comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company's core business.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Solid advice. Treat money raised as if it’s your own or borrowed from friends & family.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A simple heuristic that will save inexperienced startup founders from several different types of mistakes: be really cheap. This will save you from hiring too many people, from renting a fancy office, and from growing by buying users instead of making great things.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Flashback to every time a product manager has proposed adding a Back button to a web page

[Ben Thompson @benthompson]

The continual carping for a Twitter edit button after years of complaining that tech companies don’t consider unintended consequences never ceases to blow my mind.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

@balajis Couldn't agree more. Every keyboard press counts as a tap. Teams should track taps/swipes and seek to minimize

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

5/ Passion for quality - Pride in delivering the best user experience possible

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Biggest mistake many hiring managers make is looking purely for technical competence. I've been recruiting and hiring software engineers for over a decade now. Here are the best indicators of a great hire:

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

4/ Growth mindset - Willingness to step into the unknown to get better each and every day

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Hope - It makes achieving great things possible. But achievement can only be attained through sustained effort and that takes grit.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too complex.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Boldness is the courage to act in the absence of perfect information

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Focus on finding raging demand for your product first. User complaints about UX are not necessarily bad as they could be strong signals of demand.

[Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital @avichal]

"It's a marathon not a sprint" is only half true.

The best marathoners complete run 4:45 minutes/mile for 26.2 miles. How many people can run even one mile at that pace?

If you want to compete with the best, you need to run at a pace that looks like a sprint to normal people.

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

Technology should be focused on unlocking opportunity and upward mobility rather than profit generation off of people and their data

[Peter Rex @PeterRex]

Silicon Valley must stop consumerizing and start empowering. My latest op-ed, published today in Morning Consult, calls on investors and entrepreneurs to develop tools that help all people rise up and live abundantly. Check it out: https://t.co/dSTfuxgygC

[David Ko @davidjosephko]

@ryanburnette @herokustatus I did a bunch of heroku restarts and it eventually came back online