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V1 with Elizabeth Laraki

by Elizabeth Laraki

Every product you rely on started with a decision someone made before they knew the answer. That’s where the real design lives. Hosted by Elizabeth Laraki—an early designer for Google Maps, Google Search, YouTube, and Facebook—V1 explores the messy, behind-the-scenes realities of building the products that billions of people use today. Through casual but deep conversations with the original designers, engineers, PMs, and founders, we skip the polished origin stories. Instead, we dig into the trade-offs, the dead ends, the heated arguments, and the gut instincts that got it right—and the ones that got it wrong. Read more and subscribe to the newsletter at: https://elizlaraki.substack.com/