Exactly! Helpful to understand the tech stack that brought us here (and enjoy a visit to the Computer History Museum every once in a while), but we can do so much more now and that's to be celebrated :)
Thank you for sharing—very inspiring. I'm interested in the operations of starting and managing these companies in parallel. How did you go about finding people to run the companies? How much involvement do you have in their day-to-day operations? Are they "your" companies, or do you consider yourself just Customer #1?
Agree on looking at the company-behind-the-numbers. Though presumably you're aware of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Shouldn't "slowed down datacenter growth" be baked into the stock price already?
If I'm understanding your prediction correctly, you're asserting that the market thinks datacenter spending will continue at this pace indefinitely, and you yourself uniquely believe that to be not true. Right? I wonder why the market (including hedge fund analysis _much_ more sophisticated than us) should be so misinformed.
Presumably the market knows that the whole earth can't be covered in datacenters, and thus has baked that into the price, no?
Great writeup. With LLMs doing an increasing amount of the coding now, it would be great for the browser or development environment to have built-in validations that enforce good performance. The coding agent (or human) would get direct, immediate feedback at development time that there's a performance threshold violation, at development time.
As both a 4x founder and recovering manager-of-managers, I have to say Founder-vs.-Manager is a bit of a false dichotomy.
Interestingly, the most successful managers I've seen have themselves been founders. They had both autonomy and organizational trust, and also tenacious creativity, which led to significant successes. This binary notion of "are you a Manager™ or are you a Founder™?" is a false dichotomy and leaves great people out.
A founder mentality has certain recognizable characteristics: doing whatever it takes to succeed, applying creative solutions to challenging problems, going outside your lane to win, and putting in energy well beyond the standard 9-5 expected of a standard employee. You can hire talented people with such qualities AND build an organization with trust and autonomy. Bringing it back to Chesky's disastrous results with delegation, I'd ask this: Did he just hire bad people?
This dichotomy may at worst cause an entire generation of new founders to ignore really fantastic advice, "Hire really great people, and give them the support and space to succeed." This is not antithetical to: "Oh, and those people should look like founders." It's a Both, not One-or-the-Other.
All this said, I do think PG is touching on something super interesting, which is an almost anthropological understanding of "The Founder", and view that as a very important area of discourse and study for the next generation of great companies.
The point that both PG and BC are really trying to say is that rigid, hierarchical employee types are detrimental to company's long-term success, and instead you should be building your team with hungry, bright, and creative problemsolvers who aren't afraid to break artificial rules to succeed. But you sure as hell be building an organization with trust and giving those founder-types everything they need to succeed.
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25 million monthly active users.
Doubled userbase year-over-year.
Public company with real revenue.
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring engineers for our back-end Cloud Engineering, Mobile, and Test teams to help us scale up globally. Our tech stack in total handles over 5 billion API requests daily, so if you know your way around AWS microservices and love writing efficient fault-tolerant code, we would love to chat.
With over 25 million monthly active users and a recent IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange, Life360 is the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are focused on location sharing and safety, and our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day.
- Full-time
- Locations: San Francisco, California; San Diego, California; Remote
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SoMa: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches
Life360 | Backend / iOS / Android / Data Science / Testing | San Francisco & San Diego, CA & REMOTE
25 million monthly active users.
Doubled userbase year-over-year.
Public company with real revenue.
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring engineers for our back-end Cloud Engineering and Mobile teams to help us scale up globally. Our tech stack in total handles over 5 billion API requests daily, so if you know your way around AWS microservices and love writing efficient fault-tolerant code, we would love to chat.
With over 25 million monthly active users and a recent IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange, Life360 is the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are focused on location sharing and safety, and our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day.
- Full-time
- Locations: San Francisco, California; San Diego, California; Remote
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SoMa: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches
Life360 | iOS Growth Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
20 million monthly active users.
Doubled userbase year-over-year.
Tripled revenue year-over-year.
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring an iOS engineer to join our newly-formed Growth team to help us scale up globally. If you know iOS, and have experience with different technologies like web / backend / Android, or are particularly hungry to learn, we want to work with you.
With over 20 million active users and $90 million in venture funding, Life360 is the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are focused on location sharing and safety, but our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day.
- Full-time
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SOMA: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches
- Autonomous team with lots of support from around the company
Life360 | Android & Backend | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
15 million monthly active users.
Doubled userbase year-over-year.
Tripled revenue year-over-year.
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring senior Android and Backend engineers to join our newly-formed Growth Team to help us scale up globally. Don't let "senior" scare you; if you know your way around Android or microservices, and have experience with different technologies like web / backend / iOS, or are particularly hungry to learn, we want to work with you.
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- Full-time
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SOMA: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring a senior Android engineer to join our newly-formed Growth team to help us scale up globally. Don't let "Senior" scare you; if you know Android, and have experience with different technologies like web / backend / iOS, or are particularly hungry to learn, we want to work with you.
With over 15 million active users and $90 million in venture funding, Life360 is the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are focused on location sharing and safety, but our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day.
- Full-time
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SOMA: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches
Bringing peace of mind to families with technology.
We're hiring a senior Android engineer to join our newly-formed Growth team to help us scale up globally. Don't let "Senior" scare you; if you have experience with different technologies like web / backend / iOS, or are particularly hungry to learn, we want to work with you.
With over 15 million active users and $90 million in venture funding, Life360 is the world’s largest mobile app for families. Today, we are focused on location sharing and safety, but our mission is to become the must-have Family Membership that gives families peace of mind anytime and anywhere. From personalized location-based alerts that help make daily coordination easier, to advanced sensor tech that can detect if you are in a car crash and automatically send you an ambulance, we are leveraging smartphones to their fullest extent to reinvent how families get through the day.
- Full-time
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Competitive salary and stock options
- $200/month Quality of Life perk
- Great office in SOMA: dogs are welcome, tons of snacks, and great catered lunches