Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…First of all, look at what really drives the growth. What's the growth model? What are the levers? Ask those questions. How does it work? Ask officially and ask as part of your back channeling and reference checking. And the second thing is if you're really seriously checking out a company, evaluating a company, truly understand that customer and what are they actually paying for in this industry? What is the real product? What's the real value that they're getting? Clearly they're paying for a product or a service, but beyond that, what are they actually paying for? Ask those questions and I think that'll make it clear. I think maybe one trick here is just see what team drives growth. Oftentimes it's going to be sales, oftentimes it's going to be product experiments they're running, could be marketing. Exactly. And that department, whatever role you have, if you're in that department for that company, that's going to be your career defining work. That's why it's so worth it. You're going to attract the best colleagues or careers are going to have a step function jump. It's a totally different experience.…

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