Thread by @joulee

Someone asked me what I felt were the biggest differences between my Facebook role versus starting a new company.

Some (very early!) thoughts 👇

1) The first is, of course, the huge contrast in scale between the companies. I went from back-to-back daily meetings where my "work" was mostly on alignment in my area of expertise (design) to now very few meetings and a lot of tasks--code, design, research, cost projections, et

"Alignment" went from 80% to 5% of my time. We're so small that one weekly team meeting is usually sufficient to make sure we're all on the same page about what's going on.

2) I spend a lot of time on things of the form "Figure out _____" (like, comp philosophy, equity, locations, service for X)

There isn't an in-house expert, so we just have to figure it out ourselves (via asking folks for advice, watching Youtube videos, reading blog posts, etc).

I am seeing firsthand the power and generosity of the SV network in sharing knowledge.

Just when you think you've gotten an initial handle on something, it always blossoms into another 7 layers of complexity. I'm sure I'm doing a vast number of things suboptimally, but everything has tradeoffs, including time spent to do it well.

4) The blue sky feeling is incredible. We're on page three, and there aren't many prior plot knots to untangle yet. We can change chapter three completely at this point. There's sure to be a lot more character building and growth, no matter where the story leads.

What hasn't changed?

1) It's energizing to work with great people.

2) A lot of meetings continue to be recruiting meetings :D

3) Telling the story of who we are and what we want to do is still a big focus (although the story is more external now than internal)