Lawson: Software projects should never take three years due to changing assumptions
Jeff Lawson · a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:19
Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO of Twilio, discusses software development methodology during an a16z panel on software replacing hardware constraints.
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“Nothing in software takes three years, right? Because you assume everything will be different three years from now.”
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