GitHub Co-founder Tom Preston-Werner's Case for Products With Fewer Features
a16z · youtube · 2026-10-02
a16z shared a clip from Startup School 2012 featuring Tom Preston-Werner, who co-founded GitHub in 2008 while still at search startup Powerset, the company Microsoft acquired that same year.
The talk lays out his case against feature creep: good products ship with fewer features, not more. The philosophy is often credited for GitHub's early simplicity and developer appeal.
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