Peter Deng: belief

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…What I like about this growth team advice is that a lot of people think of a time to hire a growth team to we need to drive growth. What you're saying is there's a lot of second order benefits, which is they help you figure out what the hell's going on and inform a lot of other things that are happening, people just actually understanding how things are going. Totally. I think that the reason why growth team is the advice I would go with rather than to build an analytics team is because if you build an analytics team or a data science team, it's possible that no one's going to listen to them. It's like, "Oh, I have these insights." It's like, "Well, no one really cares." But if you hire a growth leader, they are now tied to outcomes of driving growth, so they're going to be the ones who are listening and asking more questions and really partnering with that data science team to make your entire product and business more rigorous. That just changes the DNA of your entire team. I want to talk about hiring, but is there anything else along these lines that you want to share of building new products, scaling products?…

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