How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas - First Round Review

How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas - First Round Review

Get The Review delivered Get The Review delivered Thank you! How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas At some point in the journey, most climbers — and leaders — take in the three rules of mountaineering: it's always farther than it looks; it's always taller than it looks; it's always harder than it looks. A year after joining Dropbox to run product engineering, Tido Carriero found himself looking up from base camp at his Mt. Everest: Dropbox for Business. In order to accomplish this difficult engineering feat, Carriero needed to assemble his best engineers for the big climb: entirely re-architecting the Dropbox platform to support multiple accounts. His team rallied and successfully shipped the product, but not without sacrifice: the opportunity cost of new ideas from two dozen veteran engineers. This trade-off would paralyze some less experienced managers, but Carriero has learned to take the long view. As an engineering leader at both Facebook and Dropbox,

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