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@paulg the only difference between me (experienced swe) and the interns that I've had was confidence
i just focused all of my time instilling confidence in them. if they just pretended like they were experienced they'd have just as much impact
Midjourney hit $200M in revenue with 0 VC dollars and only 11 full-time employees🤯
Other small teams with big wins in the past include:
- Instagram (acquired for $1B, 13 employees)
- WhatsApp (acquired for $19B, 55 employees)
- YouTube (acquired for $1.65B, 65 employees)
I didn't know this, but when Pinterest came out, it hit 10 million monthly unique users faster than any other site had at the time!
Really interesting (and prescient) that Facebook bought Instagram and not Pinterest.
Been reading distributed systems research papers.
Tech is so great because landmark distributed systems breakthroughs that happen at large companies are shared openly, because they know cost is the moat, not the tech itself.
The #1 trait I’ve seen in the best software engineers I know is that they have written a LOT of code.
Effective volume makes you better at anything.
10,000 hour rule applies to everything.
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