Peter Deng: belief

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…I want to talk about hiring, but is there anything else along these lines that you want to share of building new products, scaling products? I guess the last thing I would say is I want to make sure that sometimes in the pursuit of numbers, product folks lose sight of the importance of taste and craft. Maybe this is actually the dovetail into building teams, but you got to have the counterbalances. It's really important to give two people on your team different charges. One is like go grow the product and the other one is wait, maintain that design, that beautiful aesthetic, the craft that your product is known for. That tension is extremely healthy. I've seen this at Facebook. I've seen this in Instagram. I helped create this at Instagram, this healthy tension. Airtable, same thing, but just having... ChatGPT, same exact thing. You have to have that push and pull on both sides to really stretch the gamut. That begs the question, how do you actually do that? You could talk about it, you could be like, "Okay, we need to make sure the experience is awesome but also grow this number. Here's your goal." How do you operationalize that? Is it a performance review? Attribute thing? Is it culture or something else?…

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