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They are dedicating 5 people to this project... I mean... full 5 people... this is not a project, this is a charade.
by taytus 7y ago
They are dedicating 5 people to this project... I mean... full 5 people... this is not a project, this is a charade.
- wmf 7y agoFive people is pretty large for the first phase of a research project. If they come up with something good Twitter can add more people later.
- jrbuhl 7y agoIt's bigger than the size most startups being with.
- taytus 7y agoExcept they are a multibillion-dollar public company with almost infinite resources and reach.
- batuhanicoz 7y agoAnd this team of 5 would surely have access to those resources.
- gshulegaard 7y agoI mean depending on seniority of the team hired that represents at least a million dollar (maybe more) per year investment. I don't want to over sell it, but that kind of investment in something which is unlikely to yield revenue from a public company is at least unusual.
- adventured 7y agoIf they immediately tasked 20 or 50 people to the project, it would be far more absurd than starting with five. Ideally a project like this starts out from a small team and is given more resources only when it's needed.
- taytus 7y agoTrying to change the paradigm about how the planet connects and share information is an incredibly challenging task. At twitter's scale, 5 people are a team you put together to decide if they are going to migrate to X library/framework for an internal tool. This is not a task where you want to be frugal in terms of resources.
- zimpenfish 7y ago> Trying to change the paradigm about how the planet connects and share information is an incredibly challenging task. Exactly the kind of task you want a small team doing the initial research and planning on otherwise it'll be bikeshed central in every meeting, surely.
- blowski 7y ago5 excellent people is more likely to yield a successful project than 1,000 mediocre ones.
- buboard 7y agoi know right? they only needed one
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoHow many people made most of the tech innovations we enjoy now? Depends on who those five people are. Could be the next Bill Gates, Woz, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, and Bezos on the team.
- dependenttypes 7y ago> Could be the next Bill Gates, Woz, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, and Bezos on the team. I certainly hope not. While these were successful it does not mean that their projects were good or that they contributed for the good of mankind rather than for its downfall.
- tsukurimashou 7y agoadding more people to a project will most of the time make things worst, I'd rather work with 2 very competent people than having a team of 20 mediocre ones.