Evan Spiegel
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4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And so, you know, I think in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs.
My view is that designers should do that work.
So that's essentially, you know, what we would say to our designers, which was like, you know, hey, if you need PM support, why don't you just do it yourself?
What's the big deal?
And I think that that really helped, frankly, designers play a more active role in the product development process.
Now, today, you know, at a company operating at our scale, you know, if you look at the legal requirements, our approach to trust and safety, you know,
it really does take a village to get a new product off the ground.
And product managers play a really important coordination role in all that.
In addition to synthesizing, for example, data science analysis and bringing together the working group to try to solve problems or innovate or make the product better.
So I think, you know, as the organization grows and there becomes, you know,
all of these different capabilities that the company didn't have in the early days, you know, whether it's data science, you know, you name it, product managers play a really important role in bringing all those folks to the table and making sure we deliver, you know, the right thing at the right time.
Well, it sounds highly dysfunctional if folks are having that standoff.
That is not a good thing.
But I do like that people are thinking about doing work really differently.
I think that's imperative at this moment of time.
The rate of change is extraordinary.
Look, I do think designers feel vindicated in a lot of ways, right?
You know, a lot of designers had parents who were saying, why aren't you studying computer science?
You know, what are you going to do with this skill set, drawing things?
You know, this doesn't make any sense.
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