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What's going on with Facebook product management? It's shocking to see core products deteriorate, others barely every improve (where's instagram and whatsapp for iPad?), while competitors (these days tiktok, before Snap) are merely imitated years later.

Actually kind of sad to see considering I'm a big fan of Social and 'Meta' has been on the forefront for years. I hope they find a way to rethink this.

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> What's going on with Facebook product management?

The culture of Facebook is to drive metrics so they're doing their job just fine according to this.

Ya, this is it. Myopically metrics driven cultures like this have a failure mode where you're too successful at chasing the metrics and the organization's sense of taste atrophies (you grow to lose trust in your taste because it's disagreed with the metrics so often, or other people push back on it because the metrics say ____)

So there you are: your organization has no taste or ability to create 'good' things that people enjoy, you're also so large that big or wild bets are too hard for the org to stomach. What options do you really have? Pretty much just 1) buy companies or 2) fade into obsolescence...

Each team chases its own metric, even if it obviously hurts other teams, shareholders and the cattle (sorry, the users).

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