ZJUers at Facebook_Lecture Notes
ZJUers at Facebook
Harry Wang, CRO(research or risk or?), Angel investor, entrepreneur in stealth
Agenda:
About me(5 mins)
About Facebook(10 mins)
ZJUers at Facebook(5 mins)
My 5 lessons at Facebook(30 mins)
Future plan(15 mins)
Final Take-aways(3 mins)
Top 3 things I remember about Facebook:
Smart and crazy people
Freedom flows, engineer rules, and I feel in control
Move fast(and hopefully no longer break things)
ZJUers at Facebook
20+ in number
Working at: Ads, Anti-spam, Data analytics, People you may know, Message/Chat, Hadoop & Hive(分布式，蜂窝), etc
“They are really solid” ”No ZJUer ever got fired”
My 5 lessons at Facebook
(This time, tailor made for entrepreneurs or to-bes)
Disclaimer: apply at your own risk
Lesson 1: Hold on your vision, but be flexible on the details
What are the difference(Vision and detail; global and local, long term and short term; war and battle)
Know what matters
Pick the right compromises
Lesson 2: Only work with the best people
Best people are:
Foundations of everything else; Cannot tolerate good enough;Have the instinct to surprise
How to have only best people
Hire slow(Keep your hiring bar; Train your interviewers;You’d rather stretch)
Hire fast(No small poison;As soon as you know;As soon as you can)
Lesson 3: Clarify your top goals and measure them
-Top goals(Limited; need to be challenging; super clear; make sure everyone knows)
-It makes communication much easier and people start to love you immediately.
More importantly, you know whether you are in heaven or in hell.
Lesson 4: Less everything
-Limited attention, unlimited attention suckers.
-Less goals; Less features; Less meetings; Less emails; Less b-players, so more a-players will stay
-Ask yourself: is this an absolutely necessary minimum set?
Lesson 5: Push your team to do more than what they think they can
-Ignite your best people
Know their potential
Give them chance to surprise(aggressive goals; right tools;appropriate help; reasonable time bound)
-Caveats(警告，说明)(fearless; sustainable; progressive)
As an investor, I ask 7 questions:
If the (Problem is real? Market is big? Solution is smart? Team is capable&passionate&trustworthy? Why me?)
One liner take-away to entrepreneurs
You have to be really good at something and be able to convince the best people who are good at something to join you
One liner take-away to everyone
Know what you are good at and be the best at it
Harry Wang, CRO(research or risk or?), Angel investor, entrepreneur in stealth
Agenda:
About me(5 mins)
About Facebook(10 mins)
ZJUers at Facebook(5 mins)
My 5 lessons at Facebook(30 mins)
Future plan(15 mins)
Final Take-aways(3 mins)
Top 3 things I remember about Facebook:
Smart and crazy people
Freedom flows, engineer rules, and I feel in control
Move fast(and hopefully no longer break things)
ZJUers at Facebook
20+ in number
Working at: Ads, Anti-spam, Data analytics, People you may know, Message/Chat, Hadoop & Hive(分布式，蜂窝), etc
“They are really solid” ”No ZJUer ever got fired”
My 5 lessons at Facebook
(This time, tailor made for entrepreneurs or to-bes)
Disclaimer: apply at your own risk
Lesson 1: Hold on your vision, but be flexible on the details
What are the difference(Vision and detail; global and local, long term and short term; war and battle)
Know what matters
Pick the right compromises
Lesson 2: Only work with the best people
Best people are:
Foundations of everything else; Cannot tolerate good enough;Have the instinct to surprise
How to have only best people
Hire slow(Keep your hiring bar; Train your interviewers;You’d rather stretch)
Hire fast(No small poison;As soon as you know;As soon as you can)
Lesson 3: Clarify your top goals and measure them
-Top goals(Limited; need to be challenging; super clear; make sure everyone knows)
-It makes communication much easier and people start to love you immediately.
More importantly, you know whether you are in heaven or in hell.
Lesson 4: Less everything
-Limited attention, unlimited attention suckers.
-Less goals; Less features; Less meetings; Less emails; Less b-players, so more a-players will stay
-Ask yourself: is this an absolutely necessary minimum set?
Lesson 5: Push your team to do more than what they think they can
-Ignite your best people
Know their potential
Give them chance to surprise(aggressive goals; right tools;appropriate help; reasonable time bound)
-Caveats(警告，说明)(fearless; sustainable; progressive)
As an investor, I ask 7 questions:
If the (Problem is real? Market is big? Solution is smart? Team is capable&passionate&trustworthy? Why me?)
One liner take-away to entrepreneurs
You have to be really good at something and be able to convince the best people who are good at something to join you
One liner take-away to everyone
Know what you are good at and be the best at it
