At Yahoo, feature releases for Yahoo Personals took 8 months due to systems testing, integration, brand, security, and privacy testing; Facebook under Zuckerberg gave developers autonomy to deploy code directly to the live site with ownership of consequences, enabling weekly feature releases and allowing Facebook to outpace Yahoo and MySpace.

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Salim Ismail

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When I was at Yahoo...it took about 8 months to get the feature live...At Facebook...they were rolling out a feature a week

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Building a business for the Future?OpenExO
Created: 8/13/2026, 10:25:00 AM

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