What Peter Sellis thinks about taste
Former head of product at Discord; earlier Snap's first product manager, where he spent seven years, and before that a product manager at Ustream.
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Our readingOne way to gauge a candidate's taste is to ask about the things they built and never shipped.
Their wordsone way you can kind of like get at somebody's taste is uh when you're interviewing them is just ask them about some of the things they built that they never shipped.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 10th of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsexercising that kind of muscle of like saying no uh of restraint is probably one of the easiest like one of the few like muscles of taste you can exercise. If if a museum has all of their collection on the walls, then the curator hasn't done anything.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 11th of 18 in this recording
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