Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

Why Working At Google, Youtube, Postmates and Twitter Differs From Being A CEO? 🤔 #shorts #founder

6 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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A former product leader at Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Postmates founded Winnie and discovered that being a CEO is nothing like the "CEO of the product" advice given to product managers. He's now banned from product work to focus on running the company instead.

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So you started out doing research at MIT Media Lab, and then you were a partner technology manager at Google AdSense, and then a partner technology manager at YouTube Music, 2 of the most incredibly successful programs at both of those companies, and then a group PM at Twitter, then director of product at Postmates before starting Winnie. So I'm curious to hear how your hiring strategy shifted when you went from a director of product to running your own company.
Yeah, it's been interesting because when I was a product manager most of my career, you're always told you're the CEO of the product and it's, you know, a lot like being a CEO. And I'm here to tell you it is nothing like being a CEO. In fact, I do not work on product really at all here at Winning. They've banned me from anything product related.