WhatsApp had 35 engineers for 450 million users, and grew to a team of 50 for 900 million users.
Twitter cutting to 2,000 employees from 7,500 is not a "skeleton staff"
JD Ross
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JD Ross
@justindross
I take the side of people who build. Started WithCoverage to modernize insurance. Co-founded Opendoor $OPEN
Joined August 2007
- The most under-discussed story in the world is Chinese illegal fishing destroying worldwide ocean ecosystems one by one
- Paternity testing is illegal in France to "preserve family peace" this is the most French thing I've ever heard
- Google’s greatest evil is grooming brilliant 22 year olds into becoming complacent careerists instead of ambitious founders who might one day compete with them
- Another thing I've heard from a friend working in DOGE worth sharing There are great people in their department who: 1. Know exactly how to make their department more efficient 2. Have wanted to, and 3. Have been prevented with implicit or explicit career threatsReplying to @mattvanswol @DOGE and @USTreasuryNobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management. Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain minimization. People we receive
- 5 years ago today, the greatest headline ever written as Jack took over from Dick C at Twitter
- The person in charge of quantum computer aesthetics deserves a raise
- Had no idea how many anon crazies on this site hated Indians, what a weird thing. Especially since Indian immigrants are pretty values aligned with traditional American values around family, hard work, pride
- Americans on Twitter: As we all know, America is broken and democracy is crumbling. In these troubled times… Our landscaping guy, an immigrant:
- A fair amount of the early DOGE work I heard about was basically people working from 8am to 2am going line item by line item through daily gov’t spend and just stopping the craziest nonsense Made me want to do a tour of duty
- Twitter is so badly run that they bought Vine and then shut it down and then TikTok became bigger than Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
- Olive Garden serves as a living reminder of how bad all American food was in the 90s until millennial hipsters upgraded everything to above European standards
- Twitter stock is down because they ensured that every country outside the US is going to severely regulate or replace them. Imagine the UK allowing an ideological San Francisco company to control the BBC. Will India be ok with Twitter having authority to de-platform Modi?
- Jeff Bezos’s letters are better than any MBA He’ll teach everything you need to know about developing high standards, and it doesn’t even take him two pages
