Leaving Facebook By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read Look, I realized it was time for me to leave is because I wasn’t doing a good job of getting them to where they needed to be. So if you want to ask me what did I want them to do? I wanted Facebook to build a phone. I think that was well-known. I think... More
Facebook Growth Values By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read If you follow me on Twitter, I posted the values that I had for that team. In my opinion, they seem very benign. But even at Facebook at the time, people thought that they were too extreme. You know, things like very high IQ. And I thought, “What the fuck? Like, you want dummies? How... More
Facebook Growth Focus By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read For three years, between 2008–2011, the only thing we talked about at [Facebook] was growth. It was acquiring good people, giving them their “aha moment,” getting them engaged, and then allowing them to invite others. For three years, that’s all we talked about at every level of the organization. And this focus allows you to... More
Post-Failure Growth By editor on February 20, 2018 — 2 mins read I said to the [Facebook] board: “I’m proposing to create this thing, I’m gonna call it the growth team, I have all these strategies.” (I had no strategies.) And we’re gonna go and figure out how to engineer product-market fit. And what that really means is, at least with consumer software, do you understand the... More
