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I'm actually more alarmed by the apps they use as an example of focused approach: >During an appearance on stage last year, Snapchat CEO Evan >Spiegel said his
by anthonybsd 11y ago
I'm actually more alarmed by the apps they use as an example of focused approach:
>During an appearance on stage last year, Snapchat CEO Evan >Spiegel said his company rejects the overwhelming majority >of things his teams build.
>“I would say we’d probably release about one percent of the >products we’re working on,” Spiegel said. “We build stuff >all the time that’s never released. It’s just terrible.”
If that is to be believed, it would seem that Snapchat is spectacularly poor in their design and planning efforts. Can you imagine Toyota discarding 99% of their R&D?
- monatron 11y agoMaybe. I'm not sure you can compare Snapchat to Toyota, though. Perhaps Snapchats strategy is the right one? I could imagine small groups of engineers working on small self-driven features being more effective then the "lets sit down and plan this out with gantt charts and focus groups" approach. Specifically for a company like snapchat serendipitous feature creation is valuable even when so much work is being "thrown away".
- ghughes 11y agoDoesn’t sound like the CEO thinks so. “It’s just terrible” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.
- bmm6o 11y agoHe might be accurate about the number of ideas they discard, but he's got to be overstating how "built" they become. If it really is a bad idea, you can usually sniff that out well before it's fully implemented.