Imgur overcame internal dogma by hiring an external product manager
Alan Schaaf · a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:42
Alan Schaaf, founder of Imgur, discusses his experience hiring an external product management lead after running the company for five years.
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“We had been chugging away at the product for like five years, and so we had a lot of built up assumptions. We were kind of a little bit dogmatic about certain topics that we didn't need to be, that were probably holding us back, and so having a fresh set of eyes as somebody that actually does also know product management for the first time, did really help.”
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