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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Episode: Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)
Description: Kevin Yien leads product for merchant experiences at Stripe. Before that, he meandered his way from being a technical designer to a product manager, built the restaurants business and ecosystem team at Square, and most recently was head of product and design at Mutiny. He also makes ice cream and teaches for fun. In our conversation, we discuss:ā¢ Why aspiring PMs should start in engineering, design, or salesā¢ The importance of writing skills, and how to become a better writerā¢ How to automate user researchā¢ Kevinās āunsell emailā technique for hiringā¢...