Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedSam Schillace: uncertainty
11 Jan 2024 Lenny's Podcast How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
“In the early days, we had, I don't know, a couple of million users, five million users, and there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop and we shouldn't be doing it.”
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- Sam Schillace
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- uncertainty
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- 11 Jan 2024
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- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…That's an awesome framework. Basically, if it feels like people sort of like it, mostly people don't care, very few people love it or hate it, probably not disruptive. If some people absolutely love it and a lot of people really hate it, good sign. Right. Yeah. Actually, weirdly enough. It's not voting, right? In the early days, we had, I don't know, a couple of million users, five million users, and there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop and we shouldn't be doing it. So, for a long time, the haters outnumbered the people who were fans. And who cares? Whatever. It's fine. As long as you don't run out of the people who love it, that's fine. Is there another example of you using this what-if approach either on a product you worked on or something you've seen and it working out?…
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