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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career cover image

Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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How Did You Get Your First Product Launch?

I grew up in Haiti, studied computer science in college, went to business school. My first career was actually not in tech. I was a GM for a company beside friends and also overseeing West Africa business for them. After doing that, I moved back to the US, launched my own startup, which didn't work out. And then I moved to the Bay Area roughly eight years ago. So at first, I joined a startup, series A company, became head of product for them, and then joined Slack as the first PM on their growth team. From there, I helped scale the growth team at Slack. And then after Slack, I recently joined YouTube Google about two years ago.

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