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1. “Way back in university, I kind of grew up actually in the era where people really wanted to work on Wall Street still. So I actually came up through the finance ranks and stuff like that. And I worked in industry at Craft Foods of all places for about four years. But how I kind of broke into product management is I got really bored at that really quickly and I started moonlighting and bootstrapping a startup on the side. And it was called Toonzee and it helped YouTube musicians at the time, which were blowing up. This is kind of when Justin Beaver was like becoming famous by doing like webcam cover music and stuff like that. And we helped YouTube musicians monetize their fan bases by offering fan experiences at their tour stops. And so this is really early. This is before YouTube even had like a music category. And so my co-founder and I, neither of us were technical, but we were pretty good at pitching. And so we kind of entered a lot of startup competitions and we got some funding and some office space.”

   2022-06-27 · Lenny's Podcast · Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “That's amazing. So they're going to like have a mount on Teslas and you just plug it into your Tesla and just yeah exactly”

   2022-06-27 · Lenny's Podcast · Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “I've always just had a longing for space. Like, I have a vision in my mind, and I still think I'm going to do this one day. I'm going to see the whole earth in one view, and it's going to make me feel, this is going to sound weird, but make me feel really small, which I think will make me feel connected. And so, yeah, even since I was like 16, I've been saving $2,000 a year in a separate account that I just like, you know, invest in the market because I calculated that it would cost like half a million dollars by the time I was 55. And I think it's going to actually work out like timing-wise because it's like the cost is coming close”

   2022-06-27 · Lenny's Podcast · Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source