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Mike Hudack

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

having a detached view or a semi-attached view to how quickly you're growing, interrogating it, understanding what you need to build and what you need to do differently in order to grow faster. And I think that people often mistake those two types of work for each other, if that makes sense.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

having a detached view or a semi-attached view to how quickly you're growing, interrogating it, understanding what you need to build and what you need to do differently in order to grow faster. And I think that people often mistake those two types of work for each other, if that makes sense.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And that first kind of like obsessive refreshing of the thing or that obsession with like hours or the theater of it is actually super stressful, you know, and I think that's the stuff that that kind of like leads to burnout.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And that first kind of like obsessive refreshing of the thing or that obsession with like hours or the theater of it is actually super stressful, you know, and I think that's the stuff that that kind of like leads to burnout.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And that first kind of like obsessive refreshing of the thing or that obsession with like hours or the theater of it is actually super stressful, you know, and I think that's the stuff that that kind of like leads to burnout.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Whereas I think that you can work 20 hours a day, but like, you know, integrate that well with family and kids and all of that kind of stuff and be thoughtful and make good decisions and move fast and all that kind of stuff. And it's healthier and it's better.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Whereas I think that you can work 20 hours a day, but like, you know, integrate that well with family and kids and all of that kind of stuff and be thoughtful and make good decisions and move fast and all that kind of stuff. And it's healthier and it's better.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Whereas I think that you can work 20 hours a day, but like, you know, integrate that well with family and kids and all of that kind of stuff and be thoughtful and make good decisions and move fast and all that kind of stuff. And it's healthier and it's better.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Oh, man. There have been so many. One of them was just around sharing and the mechanics of sharing on Facebook. And, you know, Mark built the thing. And I remember him saying, this is like the last part of this thing that I built myself. I have a deep emotional attachment to it. And I thought I was just like, okay, I can't argue with that. To this day, I don't know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Oh, man. There have been so many. One of them was just around sharing and the mechanics of sharing on Facebook. And, you know, Mark built the thing. And I remember him saying, this is like the last part of this thing that I built myself. I have a deep emotional attachment to it. And I thought I was just like, okay, I can't argue with that. To this day, I don't know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Oh, man. There have been so many. One of them was just around sharing and the mechanics of sharing on Facebook. And, you know, Mark built the thing. And I remember him saying, this is like the last part of this thing that I built myself. I have a deep emotional attachment to it. And I thought I was just like, okay, I can't argue with that. To this day, I don't know.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Invest in people who you believe in. Don't mistake good managers or ICs at a large company for people who are going to do well going from zero to one in a startup. Think about what that means. What is the single worst product you've been a part of making?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Invest in people who you believe in. Don't mistake good managers or ICs at a large company for people who are going to do well going from zero to one in a startup. Think about what that means. What is the single worst product you've been a part of making?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Invest in people who you believe in. Don't mistake good managers or ICs at a large company for people who are going to do well going from zero to one in a startup. Think about what that means. What is the single worst product you've been a part of making?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i worked on building a multi-tiered filtering encrypted proxy basically like tor the onion router when i was a kid at a startup what advice would you give to pms today who want to get promoted don't worry about getting promoted figure out what the company most needs and go do it ideally if it's something that nobody else wants to do and the promotion will find you when is the right time to hire a cpo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i worked on building a multi-tiered filtering encrypted proxy basically like tor the onion router when i was a kid at a startup what advice would you give to pms today who want to get promoted don't worry about getting promoted figure out what the company most needs and go do it ideally if it's something that nobody else wants to do and the promotion will find you when is the right time to hire a cpo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i worked on building a multi-tiered filtering encrypted proxy basically like tor the onion router when i was a kid at a startup what advice would you give to pms today who want to get promoted don't worry about getting promoted figure out what the company most needs and go do it ideally if it's something that nobody else wants to do and the promotion will find you when is the right time to hire a cpo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

It really depends on the founder, but probably very, very late. I wouldn't do it too soon. I think that the best CEOs are very product minded and should stay involved in product for as long as possible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

It really depends on the founder, but probably very, very late. I wouldn't do it too soon. I think that the best CEOs are very product minded and should stay involved in product for as long as possible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

It really depends on the founder, but probably very, very late. I wouldn't do it too soon. I think that the best CEOs are very product minded and should stay involved in product for as long as possible.