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Head of product to GM with Rian van der Merwe (Postmark, ActiveCampaign)

The LaunchNotes Podcast | Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Ops

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How I Got Into Product Work

Rian grew up in South Africa, hence the weird name that's just hard to pronounce. After most, he did a degree in engineering and information science. He moved to Australia with a scholarship to study, but he really just wanted to travel. And as a lot of these stories go, I met a girl there and she was American and I followed her to America. We've now been married 19 years and we have two kids.

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