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Harnessing Happiness to Build Your Career — Advice from an Uber Product Leader

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Frederique Dame spent the last four years as a top product manager at Uber. But if you ask her what's made her career, it's her attitude. Here's what she knows that others should. As told to the First Round Review by Frederique Dame, most recently a product leader at Uber, and before that at SmugMug, Photobucket and Yahoo!. Here, she talks about how cultivating happiness put her on her top-flight career trajectory. When I was a teenager, I saw the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, and it had a profound effect on me. I wanted what they had. I wanted to be a savvy corporate sleuth and make big decisions for big companies — Harrison Ford and the skirt suits were just a bonus. It might sound silly, but it changed my life. Growing up in France, my parents were dentists and they wanted me to be one too. I, however, wanted to be a “businesswoman” — and, more specifically, after falling in love with math and science — an engineer. My dad, a crusader for his daughte

As told to the First Round Review by Frederique Dame , most recently a product leader at Uber , and before that at SmugMug , Photobucket and Yahoo! . Here, she talks about how cultivating happiness put her on her top-flight career trajectory. When I was a teenager, I saw the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, and it had a profound effect on me. I wanted what they had. I wanted to be a savvy corporate sleuth and make big decisions for big companies — Harrison Ford and the skirt suits were just a bonus. It might sound silly, but it changed my life. Growing up in Franc

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