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Tech conferences have become modern revival meetings. Founders take the stage to share their “moment of revelation,” conveniently forgetting the three years of mundane iteration that preceded it. That AI platform “conceived during a meditation retreat?” Look closer and you’ll find a team that spent 36 months methodically testing algorithms while their founder was busy fundraising.
As a product manager who’s spent years in the trenches of technology development, I’ve watched countless innovations get rewritten into neat, dramatic narratives that bear little resemblance to how they actually unfolded. The messy reality never makes it into the keynote speeches.
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