Adriel Frederick: There are probably, I call them techno utopians who would say, feed all data to the algorithm, give it an objective, and it will do the right thing. And I was like yeah, the reason that falls down is the algorithms don't understand long term effects often, nor do they understand how people might respond to it, nor do they understand your intent for the product, and I think it's really important for product managers to play that role. That is our job. When you are working on algorithmic heavy products, your job is figuring out what the algorithm should be responsible for, what people are responsible for, and the framework for making decisions. Lenny: Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Today my guest is Adriel Fredrick. Adriel is a VP product at Reddit where he focuses on incubating and scaling new products within Reddit. Before that, he was director of product at Lyft where he led the marketplace teams and the pricing teams over the course of five years, and before that, he was an early PM at Facebook where he spent four years leading the user acquisition team. Adriel is one of these incredible product leaders who's way too under the radar because he doesn't spend all day on Twitter and instead is executing and building great products. One of the goals of this podcast is to highlight incredible product leaders who you may not be aware of. And Adriel is a great example. Lenny: In our chat we talk about the origins of growth hacking, how to get better as a product leader, ways to increase diversity at your company, what it was like to work on Facebook's growth team early on, the future of AI and a lot more. It was such a joy chatting with Adriel and I am really excited to share this episode with you. With that, I bring you Adriel Frederick. Lenny: This episode is brought to you by Linear. Let's be honest, the issue tracker that you're using today isn't ver...