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Francesco Polizzi discusses his experience leading the redesign of Discord's mobile apps and his transition to starting a new AI startup.

Francesco Polizzi is the former Head of Core Experience at Discord, where he led a complete overhaul of the company’s mobile apps. He has also held roles as the Head of Product at both Outschool and Photomath (acquired by Google in 2023), and served as a PM at Dropbox and a growth engineer at Mozilla earlier in his career. Francesco recently left his role as a product executive to start his own stealth AI startup. Key Takeaways When Francesco first joined Discord in late 2021, the company had...

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