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. — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
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… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
The team was unbelievable, and Dropbox was a really easy, simple-to-use product. Both Aditya and I believe this is the technology company we want… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Engineers are either aggressive or passive aggressive. You need to just dive straight into it, and sometimes there are social repercussions because of it.… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
