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Mayur Kamat

05/22/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

My most spectacular failure was being the first product manager on Google Hangouts, where despite having thousands of people and the full power of Google, we still couldn't build a great messaging product.

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Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)

@ Lenny's Podcast

Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)

05/22/25

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