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> pointed at internal gatekeepers who mainly seem to say no to product releases. I've never observed facebook to be conservative about shipping broken or harmf
by solid_fuel 1y ago
> pointed at internal gatekeepers who mainly seem to say no to product releases.
I've never observed facebook to be conservative about shipping broken or harmful products, the releases must be pretty bad if internal stakeholders are pushing back. I'm sure there will be no harmful consequences from leadership ignoring these internal warnings.
- kridsdale1 1y agoWhen I worked there (7 years), the gatekeeper effect was real. It didn’t stop broken or harmful, but it did stop revenue neutral or revenue negative. Even if we had proven the product was positive to user wellbeing or brand-favorability. Yes I’m still bitter.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoWhy would a business release a revenue negative product? Stopping engineers from making products that dont contribute to the bottom line is exactly what these gatekeepers should be doing
- fooker 1y agoBecause you don't have perfect foresight. Something that loses money now can be the next big thing. ChatGPT is the biggest recent example of this. I had seen chatbot demos at Google as early as 2019.
- lII1lIlI11ll 1y agoBecause due to that mindset now FB sucks and no one wants to use it anymore?
- HDThoreaun 1y agoFB ad serve up 10% yoy but no is using it?
- array_key_first 1y agoCorrect, they don't know yet that their platform is dead, but it is. Most of those are bots.