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Flo Crivello
@Altimor
I was actually very sad to see Uber turn into this. Towards the end I was staying out of some morbid fascination — how could TK’s company, of all companies, turn into Google, in just 2 years? Reminded of this saying that your culture is the sum of your actions over the last 30d
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Tom Hirschfeld
@Tom_Hirschfeld
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100% my experience at Uber. Huge portion of the platform team was a self imposed make work project to generate promotions not business value. Huge chunk of product org was there to attend meetings, call for meetings, align, but not write specs or ship things.
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Flo Crivello
@Altimor
There are only two groups of people in tech: 1. A small group of maybe 1-10k that goes and builds companies, and then at some pt hands them over to… 2. A much bigger group of kombucha-sippers that sustain the company forever afterwards as the 1st group moves on to the next opty
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
At Apple we called them "steady Eddies". It's complicated—you really do need them once the product is non-trivial! Builders rarely want to maintain the notification settings screen, etc etc.
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Flo Crivello
@Altimor
I think it’s important for companies to deliberately manage this balance — know where is the fringe, where is the core, who is best to staff which, and how to strongly separate them
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