Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. So David and I set the direction, and the strategy and the vision and sort of where we’re headed.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Blinded by its own vision, the company’s executives ignored the negative feedback the company got in the testing phase. Building Products Customers Need Proven Methods To Build Products Customers Need Working Backward Approach Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO of Amazon.com, wrote an article about Amazon’s working backward approach in 2006.

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