Chandrasekaran: Company values must be genuine trade-offs, not platitudes
Anand Chandrasekaran · Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing · Jun 1, 2020 · at 41:16
Anand Chandrasekaran, former product director at Facebook, reflects on Facebook's 'move fast' philosophy and how corporate values should be structured.
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“One thing that I learned was how values have to be trade-offs, right? So, if you have a value like, oh, you gotta be honest, and you shouldn't cheat people, or something like that, everyone will agree with that, right? There is no Other side of that that is equally likely to be true but you're picking one side over the other, and it's truly a trade-off, right? So by saying you want to move fast, what you're saying is that there is another side where you move slowly and, you know, there is pros and cons of both, and you as a company stand for moving fast, right? And that does come with its benefits and its pros and cons and so, you know, your values have to be true trade-offs, right? It can't be just trivialities”
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