Zuckerberg: Developing features during platform rewrites increases risk of failure
Mark Zuckerberg · Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: Lead, lead again · Oct 6, 2017 · at 27:10
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Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta (Facebook), discusses the engineering strategy behind Facebook's pivot to mobile in 2012.
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“Often when companies need to take Like two years or so to rewrite their whole app or software for a new platform. They believe that they can't slow down feature development. So they do two things at the same time. They try to design a new product while rewriting the existing product. And I think that that ends up dragging everything out for longer and increases the chance that you fail and die.”
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