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Julie Zhuo

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  1. Our readingThe fastest-growing companies are not using data well, because they reached enormous scale before they had time to build any of the instrumentation.

    Their wordsSo the funny thing, my funny answer to this is I don't actually think a lot of the fast growing companies are using data well at this point. And the main reason why is because traditionally things just didn't grow that fast.

    ↗From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuoyoutube.com 8th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingGrowth always stops eventually, and only a company that instrumented its business beforehand gets to find out why instead of scrambling.

    Their wordsIt's easier to even predict whether growth will slow down at a certain point. it's easier to catch these trends earlier. If you don't have good observability over how your business runs and what the company's um key levers are, then you will be scrambling.

    ↗From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuoyoutube.com 9th of 22 in this recording