Facebook’s former mantra of ‘move fast and break things’ is still frequently held up as the best way to scale a successful technology business. Despite founder Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to pivot away from this culture in recent years, people working in the startup sphere continue to be bombarded with messages of this ilk. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman’s Blitzscaling has become the literary equivalent of the Sports Direct mug — there’s one in every office. And as tech behemoths such as Lyft and Uber race to IPO, it can seem that speed and scale trumps all.
Opinion
March 4, 2019
"Move slowly and build things"
Moving fast and breaking things might work for some startups, in some sectors — but it’s definitely not the way to win over the public sector, argues doctor-turned-entrepreneur Jing Ouyang.
5 min read
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Jing Ouyang is cofounder and COO of British healthtech Patchwork Health.

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