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Blog Articles
Patton's Advice for Product Managers
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
Youth versus Experience
If you have been wondering what’s going on with all these startups with 20-something founders and product leaders, you’re not alone. There are some great companies that have been started by some very young people, several of whom dropped out of college to pursue their ideas. I’ve talked earlier about the value of experience, but in this note I’d like to talk about the problem I see of people discounting product leaders because of their youth.