Zuckerberg’s Advice

Metadata

• Author: CEO Voice Memos
• Full Title: Zuckerberg’s Advice
• URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/017b006c-95b3-4077-8dfd-393e1785e870

Highlights

Don’t reinvent the wheel everywhere, only where it will have the biggest impact How to be a Great Leader Key takeaways: (* Zuck advised not to reinvent the wheel everywhere, but to focus on the areas that will have the biggest impact., * Zuck’s advice has been helpful to him and to the teams he’s worked with in the past.) Transcript: Speaker 1 And but that one thing they tweaked in a really transformative, incisive way that one tweak was extremely meaningful. You can think about the way that Evan Williams at Twitter evolved on the concept of blogging, which he helped pioneer a blogger, you know, by reducing it to 140 characters. That was really the innovation. You know, it was whatever it was 140 characters and there was a follow model. Tumblr itself, you know, really was a what if there was a follow button on blogs and so on and so forth. You know, a lot of the things, what if you could order a taxi, but it wasn’t you press the button on your phone. You know, they’re these really what if you couldn’t, you know, rent a hotel, but it was someone’s home. These these transformations and how we use technology and interact with software as a society tend to be something that has existed for a long, long time with one or two really high leverage changes. And so Zuck’s feedback to me was don’t reinvent the wheel everywhere. Take something that has existed for a long, long time and reinvent it in the most important place that will change everything. That’s easier said than done, of course, but I’ve kept that lesson with me and the teams I’ve worked with ever since then, which is try to just be surgical in what matters and reinventing the wheel in those places. (Time 0:05:03)