A product teardown is when teams gather to dissect a product and find its gaps and blind spots. The speaker wishes he'd done this in his first year instead of missing opportunities. It's about getting feedback without tipping into arrogance.
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Recruiting in product, they do a thing called a product teardown. They take a product, they'll get the product owners, product managers, developers, designers, they'll get them around the table and they'll tear down the product in terms of, right, what are all the holes in it and what could we do differently? We should have done that because there was a couple of points in the first year where we were cutting through, but we definitely could have cut through it better if we'd have looked at our own sort of blind spots. Yeah. There's a fine line, isn't there, between self-belief and that arrogance in terms of there are other ways you can do things. I think if we'd have had a bit more of a teardown mentality, Feedback. Yeah, it gives you feedback for it.