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What Evan Spiegel thinks about product management

@evan-spiegel · 22 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  1. Our readingDistribution, not product-market fit, is the hard part of consumer technology, and almost nobody spends enough time on it.

    Their wordsAnd I think people don't spend nearly enough time thinking about, you know, distribution and figuring out distribution. And that seems to me uh to be a huge differentiator.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 1st of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingDesigners, not product managers, should own product direction, and a company can go a long way with designers doing the PM work themselves.

    Their wordsin the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 15th of 22 in this recording

    design

    Interesting