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16 Jul 2023 Lenny's Podcast LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
“I think that the skills you need to manage a complicated ecosystem versus maybe the skills you need to design something that's less interconnected are quite different.”
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- Hari Srinivasan
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- 16 Jul 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
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