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Janna Bastow: evaluation

16 Oct 2022 Lenny's Podcast Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

“I worked my way up to be head of product at a startup in London. And then saw the need for product management tools, because there wasn't really anything like that out there.”

— Janna Bastow

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Janna Bastow
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16 Oct 2022
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Lenny's Podcast

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…It's my pleasure. Just to start off and set a little context for folks, could you give listeners a 55 second background on what you've been up to in your career? Yeah, absolutely. So I'm a product manager by background. I started my career falling into product management like a lot of people do, accidentally. I worked my way up to be head of product at a startup in London. And then saw the need for product management tools, because there wasn't really anything like that out there. So started building ProdPad. One of my co-founders, who I also happened to start Mind the Product with, and Mind the Product turned into the world's largest community of product managers. So I ended up founding two things at the same time, and that's what kept me busy for the last decade or so. And currently you have a company, maybe just mentioned that, before we move on, because I think it'll be important.…

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