Ruchi Sanghvi on Sweating the Details

Summary

The speaker discusses her experience working at Facebook and Dropbox, highlighting the differences in their approaches to software development. While Facebook prioritized speed and adding as many users as possible, Dropbox focused on attention to detail and reliability. The speaker emphasizes the importance of sweating the details and explains how this mindset led to slower development but ultimately improved the quality of the product. She also mentions the need to scale the team in order to accelerate progress.

Facebook prioritized speed and adding users, while Dropbox focused on attention to detail and reliability.
Sweating the details led to slower development but improved product quality.
Scaling the team was necessary for progress.

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