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Ruchi Sanghvi —
Indian
Businesswoman
born on January 20, 1982,
Ruchi Sanghvi is an Indian computer engineer. She was the first female engineer hired by the social-networking website Facebook... (wikipedia)
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.
Only great people can make great products.
Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.
I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.