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Jean-Michel Lemieux is one of the OGs of engineering and product having been the CTO at Shopify and the VP Engineering at Atlassian. Jean-Michel helped grow both Shopify and Atlassian from single-product to multi-product companies and led the building of their platforms.  In Today’s Episode with Jean-Michel Lemieux We Discuss: From band class to Shopify CTO How did Jean-Michel make his way into the world of product? What were Jean-Michel’s biggest lessons from his time at Atlassian & Shopify? How are Shopify & Atlassian the same? How are they different? Why does Jean-Michel think Shopify could have been 10x bigger? Building the Perfect Product How does Atlassian & Shopify build movements instead of product? What does Jean-Michel know now that he wishes he had known before he joined Atlassian & Shopify? How does Jean-Michel balance between shipping speed vs. quality? Why does JM think scrums and TDDs are BS? How did his last year at Shopify change his approach in produ