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05: When your winning bet becomes your losing bet

Spotify: A Product Story

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Product Rat Lesson Number Two

You should probably have as a general rule to not build anything that some one else could build. It's the sign of a season engineering manager or product developer to know when to take a step back and ask, how will building this particular tool move the needle on our course strategy? Tyson sow right off the bat that inlike, say, a face booksize company, it just didn't make sense for us to alocate all those resources towards hosting our own cloud while someone else could do it faster, better and more cheaply.

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