Ruchi Sanghvi Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

Summary

Ruchi Sanghvi, former Vice President of Operations at Dropbox and the first female engineer at Facebook, spoke at the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference in 2015. She shared her experiences and learnings from working at Facebook, Dropbox, and starting her own company. Sanghvi emphasized the importance of approaching challenges from first principles and not relying on past successes or biases. She discussed her role in implementing the News Feed feature at Facebook and the need to constantly seek better solutions in product design, hiring, management, and company culture. Sanghvi also discussed the mistakes made during the growth of Cove, including unrealistic growth expectations and a failure to understand the unique growth trajectory of their product. She emphasized the importance of giving startups every advantage possible and questioning conventional wisdom. Sanghvi highlighted the importance of understanding and leveraging the unique characteristics and skills of each team and the need for a different approach at Dropbox, where the focus was on reliability and attention to detail rather than the "move fast and break things" mentality of Facebook. She also discussed the importance of quality, team growth, recruiting, and cultural integration. Sanghvi left Dropbox and is starting a new venture, facing the fear of failure and the challenges of staying patient and thinking from first principles.

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