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23.03.07
Interview with Bill Campbell
The real point is that engineers should have the ability to say, “This is what we want to do, and all the product managers in the world aren’t going to talk us out of this.” Later, when we started doing a lot of banking, we hired some product managers with bank experience. One day, one of them comes to a meeting that included me and banking engineers and says, “I want these features.” And I replied, “If you ever tell an engineer what features you want, I’m going to throw you out on the street. You’re going to tell the engineers what problem the consumer has. And then the engineers are going to provide you with a way better solution than you’ll ever get by telling them to put some dopey feature in there.
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