we went to a panel featuring Stewart Butterfield, who co-founded Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site, and later Slack. Someone asked Stewart to describe a typical day at Flickr. His answer was surprising. He said that about half the day was probably the same as it was for many of the people in the audience—scrambling to keep their technology platform one step ahead of the rapid growth of their business. They worked on scaling their databases, web servers, software, and hardware. Stewart said they did not spend as much time as he would like on innovating things that were unique to Flickr.
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