Julie Zhuo
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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The entire, I want to say seven years of my first seven years where I like became a manager, I was asked to because our team was rapidly scaling.
So we were at the startup, we were in hyperscale mode and the person who was leading our design team, I joined when the design team was about seven or so people.
And so, um,
a couple of years in, you know, we had hired a manager and she basically said, I, you know, we have two new designers joining.
I don't really feel like I have the time to meet with them.
Can you just take on managing?
You get along with people.
Why don't you do it?
And that was my qualification.
You know, I got along with people and I, but I didn't know anything about managing.
And I would say that was true for all of us.
Like we were, many of us were just recent college grads, just like a year or two or three ago.
And we didn't really have like
you know, a longstanding model because of how quickly we had scaled from being a very small company.
And so I certainly felt like an enormous imposter.
And I would say that feeling was fairly consistent for about seven years after managing.
And then maybe after year seven, I started to think, okay, well, I still feel uncomfortable, but at least I think I'm getting a little bit more of a sense that discomfort is part of the journey.
And I'm more comfortable with the fact that I am uncomfortable.
So because the product did start out built by young people for young people, it was very much a company full of employees who were very, very young.
And so that has a bunch of pros and cons in its early days.
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