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Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:00:00 - 00:06:39

Lenny (00:00:00): You were basically the 10th engineer at Facebook. I imagine there was a lot of pain and suffering that people don’t often hear about.

Lenny (00:00:14): You worked 120 hours per week., you had no hobbies.

Lenny (00:00:29): The news…

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:06:49 - 00:12:09

(00:06:49): And so, as a consequence, the most important thing, if wanted to go to a lot of proms, I was a good dancer. And it turns out, the high-level bit, at least in the 1990s, for girls selecting who they might want to go to prom with was, will…

Personal Story and Background

Duration: 00:12:23 - 00:16:37

(00:12:23): So, I do think the mentorship that we give each other has been a critical and sustaining resource. There is, today, now, resources like your podcasts and your newsletter that are actually really designed to help people who are profession…

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:16:53 - 00:22:11

Lenny (00:16:53): I love that advice. I imagine the reason people don’t do this, as you said, is they don’t want their managers to think they don’t know what they’re doing, or they can’t solve it.

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:22:48 - 00:29:11

Lenny (00:22:48): Yeah, and there’s so many more people, it’s hard to find. Who is this? So, with this downside as an example, and I imagine there’s other downsides also takes a lot of work, and it puts people on the spot a lot of times, what have yo…

Personal Story and Background

Duration: 00:30:27 - 00:35:42

(00:30:27): And there probably is still work happening at Airbnb, that has to happen, finance and accounting and HR, that Brian isn’t personally managing. So there are clearly non-technical areas that we do.

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:36:25 - 00:42:59

(00:36:25): And so a lot of that is, “Do you have a clear vision and intuition for what you expected to happen?” And then what happened instead and can you diagnose the delta there? So in the News Feed case, we made a bunch of little mistakes. The t…

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:43:50 - 00:51:29

(00:43:50): And again, to my point, if you’re not engaged, if you aren’t doing great work, if you don’t love it, then move on. If you’ve exhausted it, you used to love it, but you don’t anymore, move on.

Practical Advice and Actionable Tactics

Duration: 00:51:41 - 00:56:31

Yep.

Lenny (00:51:41): I know many people have read this, many people haven’t. I’d love for you to just talk about what this means and why this is important, why this is something that you wanted to share.

(00:52:47): People always think that’s, “…

Founding Story and Company Origins

Duration: 00:57:23 - 01:03:27

(00:57:23): Another one that I think of all the time is making sure that you address people’s fears and concerns. People will not listen to you if they think you don’t know what’s going on.

Practical Advice and Actionable Tactics

Duration: 01:03:59 - 01:09:39

(01:03:59): Their displays are much dimmer than ours, and I find the motion blur really distracting when I’m in mixed reality use cases. And as I mentioned earlier in the podcast, I’m a huge mixed reality buff.

Personal Story and Background

Duration: 01:10:06 - 01:15:15

(01:10:06): And so for me, the weight, the wire, which just always brushes against my ear, the pocketable thing, I get it. That’s not what I would’ve done, and I know that because I had the chance to do it and I chose not to.

Personal Story and Background

Duration: 01:15:38 - 01:23:51

(01:15:38): And now, I think as people understand the size of it and the scope of it, and of course it helps that the core business has overcome its challenges there from ATT and the other kinds of stuff, it’s looking pretty good. I do think one par…

Closing Remarks and Key Takeaways

Duration: 01:24:51 - 01:33:44

(01:24:51): When you feel like some core part of how you see yourself is in question, you will react with every ounce of your fiber to defend that conception of yourself because it’s so expensive to reconceptualize who you are that you defend yourse…

Closing Remarks and Key Takeaways

Duration: 01:34:38 - 01:41:48

(01:34:38): They were constantly breaking down and the power steering would go out while you’re driving and you have to [inaudible 01:34:43] the thing and the brakes would go out or you’d throw a rod. I’ve done it all.

Closing Remarks and Key Takeaways

Duration: 01:41:53 - 01:41:53

Lenny (01:41:53): Bye, everyone. Thank you so much for listening.

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