”Our physical world is not platformised. It is tougher to scale businesses that move Atoms-and-Molecules than to scale businesses that are purely Bits-and-Bytes.” – @_mekin on the challenges of scaling ops-involved businesses (such as Flipkart and UrbanClap) (2/8)
“Culture isn’t what people say or put on posters. Culture is what people do. All your interfaces to employees define culture. How you hire, how you pay, how you promote - are all examples of interfaces” – @_mekin (3/8)
Silicon Valley vs India’s ecosystem – ”There is no difference in terms of talent, however there is a difference in culture. Valley has seen a longer evolution journey at large scale. There are a lot of people who share a common knowledge base from their journey” - @pmalik (4/8)
Future of tech – as @pmalik puts it – Intelligence Augmented (IA). “human body will have better cognitive power. I believe we are on the tip of the iceberg and it's going to be big. A lot of autonomous-tech is also going to happen.” (5/8)
Does experience matter? “Experience isn’t about the #-years, its about the flux one goes through while problem solving and decision making. To accelerate, key ingredients are – hunger, point of view, a world full of problems and a smart peer group.” – @ra9z (Raghav) (6/8)
Speed vs quality – “Quality and speed aren’t tradeoffs, quality often leads to more speed. Creating technical-debt is different from the maturity of a feature. You could launch an MVP without technical-debt and perhaps do it faster since you have planned well.” - @ra9z (7/8)
“Best engineers I’ve worked with are 1) Good planners. Spend lots of time planning & scoping 2) Good salesmen. Articulate tradeoffs and long term impact of technical & design debt 3) Paranoid system thinkers. Have sharp opinions on system design, usage and impact” - @ra9z (8/8)
