The career path of a founder, including his experiences at large tech companies like Facebook and his journey into founding Dagster.
The career path of a founder, including his experiences at large tech companies like Facebook and his journey into founding Dagster Labs, touching on advice for startups and insights into building a company in the AI data platform space.
Um, you know, Facebook was an extraordinary place to work, especially for like the first three or four years I was there. And, you know, people like assume when I'm talking about that that I'm talking about the financial outcomes of having IPO and that was great. Like, you know, like I'm not going to like lie about that. But what I really remember m much more fondly is just like given the crew that we had, the size of the team, the the quality and quantity of work was extraordinary. And I think that Facebook's engineering culture like 2013 2010 2013 that range is just like like it's not perfect but like as far as I you know whenever I talk to anyone and I kind of explain some of its core properties like it's just like like it was like a golden age. Um it was like you know anyone who participated in it like looks back on it very fondly and like kind of like just how quickly we moved and
like and it wasn't just moving quickly like building like slop right we like externalized open source frameworks as a result of that work that are like you know universal standards now. So it's um there's a very special culture uh in the internal dev tools uh at Facebook. So learned about that and the talent density um is very important. I think I think the other thing I learned and it's hard to do if you're not in a super resource if if you give ambitious engineers who have kind of a wide dynamic range of skills um room to run with not too much um and ability to like self-direct and build um on their own. Not everyone can do this, but there's this subset who can. you can really get extraordinary outcomes organically. Um, and that was, you know, like because like like with these projects that like came that ended up like being industry defining in some ways like wasn't directive. It was
some like individual engineer who had an idea and then was given space to like like build and then um and very quickly use the technology to build our our our core stack. [ __ ]