An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)

The issue for us at the time was that We took people away from the investment in our core product to go do those other things. Like we we moved people, right? And so The the trap there is that you leave yourself ripe for disruption in your core. Because someone else can out invest you in in that core. And so if you're the leader in some core product

Our takeaway here is you should Continue to out invest everyone else. in that core. And then invest. you know, the profits that come out of that core into the next venture. Like invest profits and not people.

Or or venture capital, which is maybe like net present value of profits or something to that effect. But don't take people away from the core to go to these other things'cause then then you end up distracted. Welcome to Lenny's Podcast, where I interview world class product leaders and growth experts to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Today my guest is Vijay Iangar.

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