Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by Firmwarrior on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:23PM (#31588333)

> world's largest social media company lagging behind a random startup

This seems to be a really common recurring theme in the tech industry and particularly the games industry, and I wish I understood why

Just look at Minecraft, Valheim, any of the recent Pokemon games... A single person or a skeleton crew can somehow always seem to outproduce gigantic companies full of engineers and artists on the same level as the ones from the skeleton crew.

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Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by Duralias on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:50PM (#31589605)

I have to imagine that this is just because you cannot pay someone to be to truly passionate about what they are doing.

And the VRChat devs actually play their own game, I find it highly unlikely that you could even remotely say the same about Horizon's devs.

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Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by tiborsaas on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:50AM (#31592493)

I think this is because once you are a running on infinite cash, it becomes a no-brainer to apply what you've already learned to achieve that success. Also, stakeholders will require that. So pull in a bunch of management, MBA-s, designers, analysts, etc. What you end up with is lot of friction and no real innovation.

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