Deb Liu: belief

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…We don't talk about this by the way, but if you look at the very senior, people who rise faster in organizations, the senior executives, they have this skill. I noticed this as I got further and further in my career, I didn't realize how important this was. And then I realized that anyone who can go into a room and speak about almost anything intelligently without any preparation has a huge advantage in our industry. Deb Liu is maybe most known for incubating, launching, and scaling Facebook Marketplace, which is now used by over 1 billion people around the world every month. But before Facebook, where she spent almost 12 years, she was at PayPal where she led much of the product integration with eBay after they acquired by eBay, and then she went on to lead much of the PayPal product team. Currently, she's the CEO of Ancestry. She's also on the board of Intuit. In our chat, we cover what made PayPal so special, and what she learned from the people, the culture, and the way they build product that's informed her approach today. We also talk about how despite being an introvert, she was able to excel in numerous leadership roles, what attributes she's found to be most common to PMs that do super well, and also what skills she believes PM should focus on. Above all else, we also chat about Facebook Marketplace, her upcoming book, Take Back Your Power, and a whole lot of stories from the course of her incredible career. As you'll see, I so enjoyed my chat with Deb, and I'm really excited for you to hear this episode. Hey, Ashley, Head of Marketing at Flatfile. How many B2B SaaS companies would you estimate need to import CSV files from their customers?…

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