A founder-engineer driven company. Facebook is one of the few Big Tech firms whose founder is an engineer, and still is the CEO. Netflix is the other one where founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings was also a software engineer before starting the company. Amazon was the other example of this until recently, but it’s not the case at Google or Apple. There are good examples of smaller companies like Cloudflare, but they’re all younger than Facebook.
Jeff Bezos was a Wall Street douche. He didn’t care about the internet or even books — he wanted data. He figured smart people like to read, and a web-based book seller was the easiest way to get data on smart people.
Not an engineer.
Apple was founded by the two Steves. One a brilliant electrical engineer and the other had some engineering skill. Their entire purpose, initially, was to build the PCBs from the schematics they’d been giving away to others in their proto-makerspace.
Engineers.
Google was started by Stanford engineers.
Zuck is an engineering drop-out. I doubt he’s written a line of code in a decade.
Is the author trying to be wrong about everything?
What is Meta even building any more?
One of the most evil companies ever to disgrace the earth.
Anyone working there is a piece of shit. Can say that for the last decade too
That’s just nonsense. There are plenty of competent nice people working there. You can say that about leadership if you like.
No. They are all pieces of shit with no morals
Happy twelfth birthday!
Because companies start with engineering, then move focus to marketing and finally move to finance, at which point what are they even doing anymore. Just let them die.
That’s why I like selling at startups. I find engineers I like, making something valuable and helpful. These days most work comes from eng friends or old bosses recruiting. I make their equity valuable. I excitedly create new engineering jobs as I create demand for them to keep up with deal flow and appreciate every hire. If I sold car parts, I’d know how many kids every motherfucker on the assembly line has. Too many MBAs in tech now, no regard for humans let alone the ones creating the thing they’re making a living on.
