Break, but move fast.
Letter to my ex-Manager at Microsoft. A real nice guy.
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How are you doing these days? We've just launched an iPad app called Apollo, and it's been awesome so far. We have tons using it everyday, and we are actively iterating in a highly competitive market. I came across these and thought this might interest you. A couple of articles about the culture change that's going on in the fast moving mobile and internet space.
http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
> After joining, I was most surprised to find that Facebook’s motto of “Move fast and break things” is real.
Users are getting more resilient to breakages, and the way companies compete, is by optimizing speed over reliability, even down-time. Of-course I'm biased to this view, because that's what I'm involved in everyday. It's a huge shift in thinking. Now the employees are busy all the time, instead of safely thinking through every possible case that can happen. When you have a high quality team of people willing to put in their 100%, breaking seems OK. There's always a fix to everything. Shipping fast is more important, because you have to work on this next thing, and it can't wait.
It's interesting to see, how far beyond startups it can permeate.
-Prasanna
PS: I mean in the worst-case what's going to happen right. Big example of twitter screwing up:
Also found it interesting to compare with gate's early days.
