Notes from Startup School - Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2007.
importance of being young, and being technical & building things
being technical
- first 10 people at facebook were technical
- first CSR wrote code to automate the process - gave him leverage
- coding gets you into a position of leverage - work can be utilized beyond raw effort
focus on iteration
- empower people who do the building (technical folks)
- get rid of layers between build and customers
Facebook's mission - "trying to make the world a more open place"
being young
- less clutter in life (mortgage, responsibilities, etc) - leaves room to be idealistic
- allows you to focus on what's important
Facebook is currently handling 1.5 billion page views a day
- can only do that because they are a deeply technical company
- even management is technical
Mark takes a moment to promote the Facebook development platform
- makes facebook provide "friend infrastructure" to the internet
- their openness here, if they do it right, could be really freakin' huge
facebook is a technology company, not a media company. guides how the hire (technical), and how they direct their efforts. Guides the culture of the company.
facebook is getting people to share a lot more data, because it gives control of the audience - you can share photos just to your org, school, etc.
work w/ people you have a high trust, high bandwidth communication with