When Mark Zuckerberg told Sam Altman what Facebook’s best invention is: If you are trying to grow a product, the best …

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has quickly risen up to be counted among world’s richest people, riding the exponential rise of his company. The Meta CEO credits the app’s ‘Growth Team’ for revolutionising user expansion by incorporating data-driven experiments into the product. In a 2016 Y Combinator talk with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, video of which surfaced recently, he shared that its good to have a communication team for marketing and growth but having a dedicated, rigorous investment in data infrastructure is the key to level up the game.

“Making it so that we could grow faster was the most important product feature we ended up building for Facebook.