I love that they do one thing really, really well. Further:
"Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to reach $1 billion in revenue run rate" - given that, I don't care if they are profitable or not. They got to $1B faster than Salesforce, as long as they keep this up they'll be just fine.
Rule when I was at Yahoo! "not on company time, not on company equipment" but you also may want to check that inventions agreement you signed when you started employment. Those tend to be pretty all-encompassing.
Requires a bit of discipline to monthly "review the whole icebox and choose a month’s worth of activities from the best items in there" but is really the right way to go.
Similarly, in Agile if you're backlog is ranked going into planning then you'll always be pulling from the "best" or "most productive" stories and ideas, not just the new tickets.
He's a creepy guy, and a total business jerk but I'm not sure what he did wrong in this case."How is this allowed @jack." ??? Do you mean, how can someone be allowed to create a collage and post them to social media? There are apps for that. And if you're a public figure you should expect this to happen to you, too.
Would she have complained if Channing Tatum or Aziz Ansari did it? And would twitter and Dorsey have cared?
I figured HN was as good of a place as any to start this discussion and seed topics. What is it you think Product Managers do? What have you observed that you hate/love/try to ignore?
"on a Saturday IIRC, she responded to someone on d-r. This sent shockwaves throughout the upper echelons, and soon senior management were clamoring to get on d-r."
So, basically Marissa ruined devel-random, too? Nice. Is there anything Marissa can't do?
"Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to reach $1 billion in revenue run rate" - given that, I don't care if they are profitable or not. They got to $1B faster than Salesforce, as long as they keep this up they'll be just fine.