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The product manager and the data diet

The product manager and the data diet

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The product manager and the data diet

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- Hey guys. Welcome back to the course. This lecture, we're going to talk about a concept in product management called the data diet. Now, what do I mean by data diet? Well, what I mean and what I'm getting at is that when you are a product manager or an entrepreneur, you do not make decisions in a vacuum. You also are not going to make product decisions with only one single source of information. Let's say that you wanted to go see a movie. Would you be satisfied in just pulling people over randomly in the street, asking them what they thought of a movie and then basing your decision about whether or not to see it off what they said? Well, no and if you said yes, that's because it's a low-risk maneuver or you have really low standards. Shame on you. Building products compared to going to movies are a little different. Building products are a much bigger risk. When you're building a product, there are no do overs…

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