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2 Aug 2026 Lenny's Podcast This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
“I'm told constantly that my Australian accent is going, but one of the things that I love is every time I go home, I realize actually a bunch of the government services apps in Australia have become phenomenal.”
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- Tom Verrilli
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- 2 Aug 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Favorite product that you have recently discovered that you really like? This is a very deep cut, so I will apologize to most listeners. Hopefully you've detected the accent. I'm told constantly that my Australian accent is going, but one of the things that I love is every time I go home, I realize actually a bunch of the government services apps in Australia have become phenomenal. You ever had that kind of concept where you're like, the government has all my data, I wish there was just one place where I could with one click, get my driver's license renewed, I could transfer titles, and do all of the admin that slows you down in life. Services New South Wales actually nailed. Bizarre to me that I would ever come on a podcast and say, actually, a government-run app in Australia, of all places, is it, but I was home recently and had to do all of my life admin, and it's incredible. Wow. Something I heard recently about Australia while we're on that topic, real quick tangent from lightning round, is with a solar panel build-out that just happened there, there's more electricity available in Australia than they can use. And they're giving people free-…
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