What David Crawshaw thinks about product management
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what David Crawshaw has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMost software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.
Their wordsVery few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.
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