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Entering StartUpLand
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Entering StartUpLand

by Jeffrey Bussgang
October 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
5h 26m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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2. The ProductManager

My first job after business school was as a product manager. I wasn’t sure I had the right background for the job—in fact, I wasn’t sure if I even knew what the right background for the job was—but I jumped into the deep end and tried to figure it out. In one of my first product meetings, I remember the vice president of engineering handing me a stack of printed bug reports as thick as a dictionary.

“What am I supposed to do with this?” I asked.

“You’re supposed to tell me which bugs you want fixed before we ship the product and which ones you want us to leave in the product,” he replied blithely.

“Why would we leave bugs in the product?” I asked indignantly.

“Because if we don’t, it will be a cold day in hell before we ...

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