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Published · transcript-backedMayur Kamat: recommendation
22 May 2025 Lenny's Podcast Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
“The main learnings from that is, don't take on projects that are going to be six months, a year, because you just generally don't have control over the macro.”
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- Mayur Kamat
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- 22 May 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…My, probably, most spectacular failure was, I was the first PM on Hangouts. We had thousands of people working for me. We had entire power of Google. We had Larry literally sitting with us saying we can do anything we want Chrome to do and we still didn't manage to build a great messaging product. The main learnings from that is, don't take on projects that are going to be six months, a year, because you just generally don't have control over the macro. The challenge with being a product manager is, everybody thinks they can do the job. Anybody who uses the product thinks they have ideas, so at some point in time, you're like, "What is my discipline? What is my science?" The moment you build experimentation, you've now made it scientific. A lot of new people in their career are like, "Oh, I just want to think about strategy. I'm going to think about the big picture."…
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