Saurabh Pathak

Senior Engineering Manager @Meta, formerly @twitter @netflix @yahoo

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

My feed would be so much better if Twitter let me follow people for specific topics. I follow someone for their take on X, doesn’t mean I want their hot takes on Y flooding my feed. For eg I want to hear @elonmusk talk about tech but have no interest in the rest of his views.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@ajeet Had a great thing collaborating with you as well as playing cricket! Hope our paths cross again in the future.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

If I was @elonmusk I would not worry about why my tweets are not getting enough engagement but rather focus on why the product generates zero engagement for 99% of the tweet authors.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@jasoncwarner So true, I wrote a thread about it few years ago based on my learnings: https://t.co/MOi4RXo2Fw

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

1/14 I have led several engineering teams professionally, however a lot of my leadership learnings have come from leading sports teams.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@anshublog Counter to that I think the effect might be opposite in practice, it will likely only build the GPT brand. Yahoo used to brand something similar to “uses Google Search” which only turbocharged Google. Yahoo realized that too late & bought Inktomi.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@djpardis You might occasionally find a good tweet but more often than not it comes across as an engagement hack.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@AlexCartaz Product intuition and A/B tests are usually coupled with the former leading to the latter.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

I am old enough to remember when these decisions were made by A/B tests.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tweet impression count should

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@karthikramen DAU ratio is just one data point but you need to look at lots of other key ones like revenue/employee, future payout based on bets in progress, etc.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@karthikramen That's not true, these are public numbers so you can check for yourself. Meta's family DAP is more than 10X of Twitter numbers (https://t.co/frjxNAnPoE) which needs infra at a different scale. Not to mention other big bets companies like Google make that did not exist at Twitter.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@venusatuluri It was great working with you and playing cricket! Hope our paths cross again in the future.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@TheDon Notifications 💙 🫡 🍻

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@bchesky instead of completely random people staying in your house why don’t you limit it to Airbnb interview candidates. That way you get to meet prospective employees & they get to try your product firsthand before their interview. Just an idea, not remote friendly though.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@larkinbobarkin Indeed, I rushed to USGS thinking it might be over 5.0, glad it’s not

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@adrianco That’s good to hear, I will try it out. Also good call on keeping camera lens clean.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@adrianco what’s your experience with auto pilot on freeways during late evening/ night? So far I have used it on freeways during the day exclusively.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@gasca Pretty much all of Twitter products have been stagnant over the last decade which is why the stock just kept oscillating between $10 - $70 range.

[Saurabh Pathak @pathak_s]

@atShruti US is lagging way behind here. I never carried a wallet in London over the last 5 years since contactless mobile pay worked everywhere. It just took me two days after moving back to SF to run into a business that did not accept apple pay.

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@kpk For sure they did most things right for such an exit!