Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Yeah, I think it's time too. I think when an engineer and a designer are building for another engineer and designer, they can get to those answers, get to those sense much more quickly. But I think it would consume way more time if they're building for a totally different audience that they don't really have a lot of experience or intuitive sense for. And so then at the end of the equation, you're right, it's not just them being unhappy, but they're spending so little time writing code or doing the design that it ends up being a less productive way to get to the ultimate goal, which is building a successful product. Absolutely. The other thing that I think of, because we're going down this thread of Linear, because yeah, I was surprised by the reaction a little bit. Is that in my Notion deep dive, on how Notion builds product, one of the interview answers was just like, "We should have hired product managers earlier." They waited a long time for similar reasons, "We don't need product managers." And looking back, they're like, "That was probably not a good idea." And I think it was a similar situation, whereas designer led, building for themselves. So it's more of a question of just, when does it make sense? I just hate that there's this anti-product management [inaudible 01:15:49]. That has come up.…

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