Raaz Herzberg
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It's in this balance.
It's in this balance.
A lot of things we did build for customers, but there were things that were aligned to that North Star, and we never built them without the knowledge that it could scale for everybody.
A lot of things we did build for customers, but there were things that were aligned to that North Star, and we never built them without the knowledge that it could scale for everybody.
And so that's one of the things that actually made execution at Wiz and development super fast, because everybody's building always for one North Star, and there's no one-offs that you regret, and there's no refactors, because it had to match that North Star and that scale.
And so that's one of the things that actually made execution at Wiz and development super fast, because everybody's building always for one North Star, and there's no one-offs that you regret, and there's no refactors, because it had to match that North Star and that scale.
I think the beautiful thing is you constantly feel that way, right?
I think the beautiful thing is you constantly feel that way, right?
When you build a product, it's not perfect.
When you build a product, it's not perfect.
It's always missing a million things and always there's so much more you can do, especially when you solve a big problem.
It's always missing a million things and always there's so much more you can do, especially when you solve a big problem.
I think in Wiz, we had areas that in earlier phases of the company, it didn't make sense for us to expand into from a product perspective.
I think in Wiz, we had areas that in earlier phases of the company, it didn't make sense for us to expand into from a product perspective.
But over time, we grew into it.
But over time, we grew into it.
And so those are places where I think sometimes we were, maybe we were very cautious about that North Star.
And so those are places where I think sometimes we were, maybe we were very cautious about that North Star.
And if we went backwards, it would have been more clear to me that we should have said, oh yeah, we're going to expand there.
And if we went backwards, it would have been more clear to me that we should have said, oh yeah, we're going to expand there.