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Build No Temples

[vgill @vgill]

I'm calling this Berenson's Law: When you ship a new product or service, major release, or even a major feature, your people resources for new feature development is permanently cut in half. https://t.co/nYT7jNabkq
A most insightful answer to why things slow down
CC:@halberenson

[vgill @vgill]

@bifrosty2k @SFYD @D4GordonMar have you thought about logging off twitter, my entire feed every time I check is you being outraged at something or the other. is there literally nothing else for you to do?

[vgill @vgill]

Shipping a product to market is one of the hardest things to do in tech. Go Team @Rapid_API

[Andrey Bukati @bukati]

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[Rapid @Rapid_API]

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[vgill @vgill]

@bifrosty2k what percentage would have seen this a decade ago (normalized for pop growth)?

[vgill @vgill]

@bifrosty2k https://t.co/bTC7xRX6uq

[vgill @vgill]

“We believe the top five distinguishing characteristics of great engineers are writing good code, adjusting behaviors to account for future value and costs, practicing informed decision-making, avoiding making others jobs harder, and learning continuously” - Li and Ko et al.

[vgill @vgill]

Let's reconcile the Bar Raiser program. The goal is "Every person hired should be better than 50 percent of those currently in similar roles". With 6% of people on PIPs every year, we can assume they fall predominantly on the old cohort. Do they? Is the BR working?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Mainstream media is acting like this attitude is new from FANG. It’s not.

Amazon puts ~6% of people on PIPs every year as a quota. Netflix has the “keeper test” and just laid off some engineers. Google did the same as FB a few months ago (more bonuses, higher expectations)…

[vgill @vgill]

This ins't happening - take a look at the duplicate chat apps from Google, the re-invention of the data wheel at Netflix, and I have no idea what Meta is even doing with that much r&d. Instead of engineers, who is firing the executives who are greenlighting so many bad products?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Mainstream media is acting like this attitude is new from FANG. It’s not.

Amazon puts ~6% of people on PIPs every year as a quota. Netflix has the “keeper test” and just laid off some engineers. Google did the same as FB a few months ago (more bonuses, higher expectations)…

[vgill @vgill]

just saying that we are hiring across the board in berlin, tel aviv, and the united states.

[Andy McLoughlin @Bandrew]

Feels like a fantastic time to be an investor in unsexy enterprise and infrastructure companies

[vgill @vgill]

This job comes with visa and relocation support for our Berlin, Germany office.
https://t.co/e1b5O1aiRW

[vgill @vgill]

@simnett build and sell IP

[vgill @vgill]

there are actually only three business models
1. sell reach (ads are a vehicle, what you are selling is _reach_)
2. facilitate and take a cut of transactions
3. build and sell IP

[vgill @vgill]

@randomfrequency facilitate txns

[vgill @vgill]

@GergelyOrosz @doist Citation needed on google attrition - regretted R&D attrition was insanely low when I had access to the numbers. The exact numbers are probably confidential.

[Batfish @batfish_]

Yes, looks like a text book case for Batfish

[vgill @vgill]

1. sell reach
2. facilitate transactions and take a cut
3. build and sell IP

thats it.

[vgill @vgill]

@GergelyOrosz @GruffRuff3 I was the head of eng of Databricks when we grew AMS DB by 10x. The talent there was just as good. We had 1 bar at databricks and anyone who was employed there had met that bar. This is a stupid take. Databricks has probably the best talent density of any startup.