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Yes. I do wonder how much of the metrics obsession of the ZIRP, FAANG-growth era was basically papering over the fact that the big problems were solved and they

• SpicyLemonZest 4y ago
  I don't want to defend the full suite of metrics obsession, but there are substantial downsides to only looking at revenue. The most straightforward examples of this are in the data space - if you have some idea for a clever data skipping optimization that will make your users' workloads much more efficient, but your team's performance is evaluated on revenue, you end up with very strong incentives to not ship it. Most products are going to face some scenarios where long-term success conflicts with a monotonically increasing revenue graph.
  • steveBK123 4y ago
    For sure, but I think proper vision, leadership, project management, actually talking to users/customers, and human intuition can get you to a better long term strategy than a dashboard full of derived metrics, meta metrics and meta meta metrics. I don't think any of the greats in the space (Jobs, Gates, etc) likely looked at any of these dashboards once.