JZ thinks “every human does it” !
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Product management basics and qualifications are discussed in the context of startup founders and product managers, with references to Stanford Business School and product management courses.
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you teach product management at Stanford I'm curious what are the most common mistakes that you find upms make I think something that is really hard to untrain but I think every human does it is you jump to Solutions and so a lot of people will literally come in they'll be like I want to build x-startup or I want to do this thing so like untraining that and being like Hey we're gonna go out there we are not going to think at all about the thing that you want to build but instead we're going to be focused on users like people in the real world and their problems and the first step is to understand their problems and then understand if there's an opportunity here so that's the biggest you know mistake that you really have to unteach um and like retrain thinking around
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