> The big thing I realized is how hard it was to for leadership - whether product or engineering - to say no... I really respected my manager at my last job fo

> The big thing I realized is how hard it was to for leadership - whether product or engineering - to say no... I really respected my manager at my last job for frequently saying no, for good reasons that he articulated so well that the other managers who he said no to actually agreed and accepted his decisions. That's a rare quality in managers that I haven't seen before or since. Most are pushovers who usually agree to do almost anything asked of them, no matter how ridiculous and unrealistic.