{"id":2665,"date":"2022-01-27T04:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/why-i-left-facebook-to-join-e-commerce-startup-fast-business-insider\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T04:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:10:18","slug":"why-i-left-facebook-to-join-e-commerce-startup-fast-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/why-i-left-facebook-to-join-e-commerce-startup-fast-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Left Facebook to Join E-Commerce Startup Fast &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.<br \/>             Good             <span class=\"my-insider-time-of-day\"><\/span><span class=\"my-insider-name\"><\/span>           <br \/>             <span class=\"activation-since-subscriber\">Subscriber<\/span>             <span class=\"activation-since-account\">Account active<\/span>             since             <span class=\"activation-since-date\"><\/span>           <br \/><em>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eunjoon Cho, the director of engineering at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fast.co\/\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\"><em>Fast<\/em><\/a><em>. It has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><br \/>I&rsquo;ve been the director of engineering at Fast for less than a year and am really enjoying it.&nbsp;I&rsquo;m responsible for some of the product-engineering team, which builds the checkout experience for our customer websites.<br \/>Before this, I worked at Facebook as an engineering manager for about a year and a half, and before that I was at my own startup. Before that, I was at Google.&nbsp;<br \/>The implications of success versus failure of a project are more significant at a startup.&nbsp;<br \/>Larger companies can easily pivot and shift resources to another project. At a startup, that luxury is not guaranteed. That pressure brings more agency on decision-making across all functions in the company.&nbsp;<br \/>People care more about the outcome of a project&rsquo;s success and are biased toward action, which is an environment I enjoy working in. At bigger companies, there are many other incentives for individuals outside of the success of a project, which ultimately slows down progress.<br \/>The e-commerce space specifically is growing exponentially right now. I joined Fast because I saw so much opportunity with a product strategy that solves the broken checkout experience.&nbsp;<br \/>At larger companies, you&rsquo;re largely working within the boundaries of what previous employees set up 10 or 20 years ago.<br \/>I get to do that now at Fast, actively iterating on what we want to promote as our values. It&rsquo;s not always easy, but building that together as a team is empowering.<br \/>I wrote code for speech recognition on Google Home and Android devices. Then I grew into a manager there.&nbsp;<br \/>At Facebook, I worked in Facebook assistance, so I ran the AR\/VR organization, things like Oculus and some AR glasses.<br \/>Both Facebook and Google have a very transparent culture where they share all the code and processes, so it&rsquo;s really easy to ramp up and learn quickly.&nbsp;<br \/>Sometimes your core project has only two to three people working on it, but the team I managed was about six people large. The speech recognition team at Google was about 500 people. At Facebook, my immediate team was 10 to 15 people.&nbsp;<br \/>While I didn&rsquo;t have any issues with my previous employer and I wasn&rsquo;t actively looking for a new role, it was just exciting what Fast was doing.<br \/>And while financial opportunity was not the primary reason I joined Fast, the financial upside, despite being riskier, is much larger than a big company.&nbsp;<br \/>For the business, it helped. We saw a large amount of users go online to purchase items. Sellers install our Fast checkout plugin (which is free) and turn it into a better experience for buyers, retaining more customers and ultimately selling more products. Fast makes money through the same average transaction rates that credit cards charge.<br \/>Our checkout feature also works at the intersection of content and commerce. If you&rsquo;re reading an article and a celebrity is wearing a certain pair of shoes, readers can buy them straight from the article itself quickly and easily. This is also something that can be done using QR codes at sporting events.<br \/>We&rsquo;re moving fast and making changes. We know the problem is real and we&rsquo;re constantly looking for new ways to deliver better features, faster.<br \/>                               Keep reading                             <br \/>                             For you                           <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-left-facebook-google-ecommerce-startup-fast-2022-1\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eunjoon Cho, the director of engineering at Fast. 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