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What are some things you’ve had to unlearn?


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·Nov 3, 2024

You'd be surprised at how many Founders that we talked to will tell you that nothing they did in their job translates at all to their startup. It's because you have so much infrastructure inside of Google or Facebook to do your job, and they have their own way of doing code reviews. Like, there's just all this stuff.

So when you start a startup and you have none of it, and you're starting from scratch, you're dependent on those tools. There's no tooling, there's no infrastructure; you have to create everything from scratch.

And so again, what's funny is like, you know, you learn a lot of stuff, but a lot of what you learn is how to use the tools of the thing. What you don't get to use when you don't work there anymore. I think when you work on Fang, Founders find that there's more they have to unlearn.

I've worked with so many Google Engineers who are just like, their standard for getting a product into even beta at Google is 10x what an MVP in the startup is. They just have to unlearn. And I've had to fight with Founders on that where it's like, this would never see the light of day at Google.

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