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Gokul Rajaram: The Super Angel on Speed, Small Teams, Product Management, and the S.P.A.D.E. Decision Framework

Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors

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Product Management - What Did You Learn as a Software Engineer?

I think the biggest learning with software engineering for me was it was more personal that I felt I would be a very good software engineer but not a great software engineer. And so I realized that what to build is one of the things that product managers work on and that's why I decided to move into product. A lot of it is intuition, creativity, pattern matching, analytics. It's a unique thing which only comes with experience. So I believe anyone can become product manager if they essentially put the effort into learning the various components of it and get exposed to enough reps doing it.

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