Deb Liu: belief

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…I love that you decided to be a PM on the spot in an interview line, talking to a recruiter, that's amazing. And you were in your early twenties at that point, and that turned into basically leading this integration between PayPal and eBay, right? Yeah, so at that point, I was pretty young, and I knew very little about anything obviously. I was early in my career and eventually my manager left. A couple of years later, my manager left, I ended up taking on the entire team. I was working on the integration for a long time and then after a couple years I actually took on his role as well. It was just an incredible opportunity at the time. I think that's what's really great about a career in tech is if you're in a high growth company, they give you so much responsibility that you have no business deserving the right to do, and yet you have this opportunity to shape a product that's touched by millions and millions of people, and you can grow your career so quickly because you can have such impact in such a short time. That was it for me, was that I had this opportunity to build something that was really special, and be a part of a company at a growth phase that was so incredible and to be part of one of the most really wonderful stories of two products that came together. And as Meg had said at the time, one plus one equals three. That's how it turned out/one of the ones became 10, the PayPal side. Just thinking back to your time at PayPal and eBay, what's one or two things that you've taken to where you work now that informed the way you build product, hire, lead teams, anything like that? What's a lesson that you've learned from that experience?…

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