Mark Zuckerberg about the hacker culture in the company
The youngest billionaire in the world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tells how he did hacking at the university, how he launched the first version of Facebook (10,000 lines of code), what mistakes he made after registering a company with his classmates and how he got in touch with the first investors.
According to Zuckerberg, he never did well to “build a company”, that is, to pay attention to planning, financial indicators and the like. In reality, Facebook has always embodied some kind of hacker culture, that is, from the very beginning they set a single goal: to make a good project in terms of programming and performance, in order to appeal to people. The company had no other goals. They served a growing stream of users and bought new servers for $ 85. The expenditure part is always ahead of the revenue.
What distinguishes Facebook from other companies is a strong hacker culture. Virtually all senior managers have technical education, including in non-technical positions, such as a marketing director and a finance director. Mark Zuckerberg says that even Google has none. There is not a hacker, but an academic spirit, they grew up in academic circles, there are many employees with degrees and they are strong in R & D.
Facebook has 300 million users and 300 programmers. By the number of users per programmer, they have no equal.
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Now Facebook is inviting single programmers who really want to improve their programming skills. By the way, one of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, had previously worked on Facebook, then quit and founded his own startup. As you can see, the experience went to his advantage.
According to Zuckerberg, he never did well to “build a company”, that is, to pay attention to planning, financial indicators and the like. In reality, Facebook has always embodied some kind of hacker culture, that is, from the very beginning they set a single goal: to make a good project in terms of programming and performance, in order to appeal to people. The company had no other goals. They served a growing stream of users and bought new servers for $ 85. The expenditure part is always ahead of the revenue.
What distinguishes Facebook from other companies is a strong hacker culture. Virtually all senior managers have technical education, including in non-technical positions, such as a marketing director and a finance director. Mark Zuckerberg says that even Google has none. There is not a hacker, but an academic spirit, they grew up in academic circles, there are many employees with degrees and they are strong in R & D.
Facebook has 300 million users and 300 programmers. By the number of users per programmer, they have no equal.
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Now Facebook is inviting single programmers who really want to improve their programming skills. By the way, one of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, had previously worked on Facebook, then quit and founded his own startup. As you can see, the experience went to his advantage.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/73394/
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