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Zuckerberg: Rapid imperfect software releases outperform annual feedback cycles
“Even if not every single release is perfect, I think you're going to end up doing better over a year or two than you would be if you just waited to get feedback for a year of all your ideas.”
Zuckerberg: Let teams run any test that won't destroy the company
“On a day-to-day basis, a lot of the decisions that I'm making are like, okay, is this going to destroy the company? Because if not, then like, let them test it, right? I mean, it's, if the cost of the test isn't going to be Super high, then in general we're go…”
Zuckerberg: Never hire someone you would not work for yourself
“And I've adopted this hiring rule, which is that you should never hire someone to work for you unless you would work for them in an alternate universe.”
Zuckerberg: Developing features during platform rewrites increases risk of failure
“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 rewriti…”
Zuckerberg: Meta's primary company strategy is learning quickly
“I think more than any single product that we're working on at this point, that focus on learning quickly is the strategy of the company.”
Zuckerberg fears missing big opportunities more than making business mistakes
“I'm much more motivated by making sure that we have the biggest impact on the world than by building a business or making sure we don't fail. I have more fear in my life that we aren't going to maximize the opportunity that we have Than that we messed somethin…”
Zuckerberg: Great companies require founders who hire people stronger than themselves
“And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self-c…”
Zuckerberg: Facebook froze new feature development for two years for mobile
“So we made what was a pretty hard decision at the time, which was basically no new features for two years, which is kind of a crazy thing.”
Zuckerberg: Facemash was one of the only accurate parts of The Social Network
“I'd done this prank face mash, which was one of the only true things covered in the movie.”
Zuckerberg: Facebook runs roughly 10,000 different versions simultaneously
“At any given point in time, there isn't just one version of Facebook running, there are probably 10,000.”
Zuckerberg: Direct testing tools bypass management debates and accelerate execution
“And giving people the tools to be able to go get that data without having to argue whether their idea is good through layers of management before testing something frees people up to move quicker.”
Zuckerberg: People crave mundane social context about their peers
“People just have such a thirst for understanding what's going on with the people around them in their community. That even something as simple as just to understand context around what courses someone is going to take ended up being a really interesting thing,…”
Zuckerberg: When starting Facebook, I assumed another company would build the global platform
“I did think that someone was going to build a global social platform. I just thought that there was no chance it was going to be us.”
Zuckerberg: Early Facebook users resisted campus expansions before quickly accepting them
“We'd seen this funny dynamic where, you know, we talked about how we started it at Harvard, and then we'd launch at Yale, and then all the people at Harvard would be like, oh, come on, like them? And then it's like at every step along the way, you go from Yale…”
Zuckerberg initially believed Facebook was a project, not his real company
“And I remember we explicitly talked about One day we might start a company. And this was after we'd started Facebook. So the clear implication was one day we were going to create a company, but this was obviously not the company that we were going to create.”