joshelman
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Partner at Greylock. Joined in September 2011. Before Greylock, spent 15 years in product and engineering building up a bunch of interesting startups:
Twitter: Led user growth and relevance (grew active users by 10x) Facebook Platform: Launched Facebook Connect Zazzle: Led product management LinkedIn: Early user growth and launched LinkedIn Jobs RealNetworks: Ran RealPlayer and RealJukebox product and engineering teams Stanford: BS in Symbolic Systems
i don't understand this comment. I was referring to following others on Twitter as a way to get information.
Having worked on various versions of this flow, I think this is backwards. Taking the user step by step to follow their first people teaches them the important of following and starts them on the path of that as a long…
I think you have to think of the twitter experience as a progression where you start with people that you know/have heard of/can relate to, and over time you discover new interesting people in areas of your interest to…