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" Like Zuckerberg said: Move fast, fix later." And you will have a good enough product but never an awesome one, as "later" never comes, and when it comes the

" Like Zuckerberg said: Move fast, fix later." And you will have a good enough product but never an awesome one, as "later" never comes, and when it comes the person that created the feature is not in the company or is not available or does not remember why he did it the way he did it or they are cascade bugs.... This approach was used by American cars and was very good for testing different things while the industry evolved, but when industry matured the Japanese(and German) with the "stop the assembly line until the bug is fixed" won. Sometimes good enough wins, some time perfectionism does.

joefreeman 14y ago
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. A fairer comparison would be if the car companies continuously replaced your car with a free upgrade. I could cope with that.
digitalengineer 14y ago
The car-analogy is false. Or did you get your car for free and will it be replaced with a better car next month? From his video: "Actually one of the core values of Facebook is is "Move fast." And we used to write this down by saying, "Move fast and break things." And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think that's still basically true. I mean, right now, we've optimized so much of our culture around just making it so that people can come and build things quickly. Right, whether it's everything from having the right tools in the right development environment to build things quickly, to nightly code pushes, hiring the best people who have a bias towards just pushing things very quickly, very entrepreneurial. The whole culture is tuned around that. And I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something not to not make mistakes." http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/1889-mark-zuckerberg-moving-fast-and-breaking-things http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/1889-mark-zuckerberg-moving-f... I didn't think anyone would argue against it as it's how most startups build. Besides software is never 'done' correct?

joefreeman 14y ago

That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. A fairer comparison would be if the car companies continuously replaced your car with a free upgrade. I could cope with that.

digitalengineer 14y ago

The car-analogy is false. Or did you get your car for free and will it be replaced with a better car next month? From his video: "Actually one of the core values of Facebook is is "Move fast." And we used to write this down by saying, "Move fast and break things." And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think that's still basically true. I mean, right now, we've optimized so much of our culture around just making it so that people can come and build things quickly. Right, whether it's everything from having the right tools in the right development environment to build things quickly, to nightly code pushes, hiring the best people who have a bias towards just pushing things very quickly, very entrepreneurial. The whole culture is tuned around that. And I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something not to not make mistakes." http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/1889-mark-zuckerberg-moving-fast-and-breaking-things http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/1889-mark-zuckerberg-moving-f... I didn't think anyone would argue against it as it's how most startups build. Besides software is never 'done' correct?