Product managers, do you know how you get to 100 million users in 5 days for your MVP product?
By cutting features and only doing the barest minimum but make those features excellent.
Part of the reason that people that compete against Meta so often get smoked, is that their dislike for all things Meta clouds their judgement, making them incapable of seeing or acknowledging the things that Meta is extremely good at.
"Oh, they just copied from Twitter!" or "Oh, they just moved their other customers over!" is a remarkably shallow analysis of what they just did.
Even now, there are people reading what I just wrote, and interpreting it as some kind of glowing endorsement of Meta's business priorities. 🤷🏿♂️
Or they're getting ready to rage type some exaggerated nonsense at me about how big an impact Cambridge Analytica had on getting Trump elected. (The impact was tiny).
That type of myopia makes it really difficult to learn from people and organizations that you don't like. Which is a significant weakness.
@mekkaokereke @carnage4life Good points, well made but it’s good not to minimise the damage and even minimal influence on an election like the US presidential election is huge imo
I'm not minimizing anything.
People love to gloss over real racism in the electorate, and pretend like the big bad boogeyman of Cambridge Analytica tricked people's parents into voting racist. That's just not what happened.
Those people were enjoying Fox News for 20 years before Cambridge Analytica. Trump won because of extreme voter suppression, clear and simple.
The attitudes of those Trump voters didn't change before or after the election.
@mekkaokereke @oscarjiminy @carnage4life I mostly agree with this - but as someone close to US Evangelical culture, there was a REAL swing between 2016 and 2020. In 2016, Evangelicals were Trump's *weakest* constituency among GOP, and everyone I talked to either voted 3rd party or viewed it as a "lesser of 2 evils to get Pence as VP and FedSoc Supreme Court picks". In 2020....Trump was basically viewed as a savior and Pence was viewed as a traitor to the cause...
@mekkaokereke @oscarjiminy @carnage4life Probably the closest thing to a literal Faustian Bargain we will ever see in our lifetimes.