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Harjas Singh is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of SHARES which has one goal: to empower you to become a smarter investor, so you can take charge of your financial future.
Harjas is the most user-focused CPO’s I’ve ever met, a clairvoyant when it comes to the future of investing, and a wizard at building teams.
🛠️ Building SHARES.io, raised over $50m
🔮 Product Visionary (I mean just check out the app)
🚀 Scaled Revolut Wealth from 0 - 2m Users
In this episode, we get into the depths of :
1 - Understanding how his childhood in India and education in the USA led him to Tech
2 - Scaling wealth at Revolut from an idea to 2m users
3 - Building Shares and the Future of retail/consumer investing
4 - How do you build a kick-ass Team
Background
When did Harjas find his love or interest for tech and finance?
What was family life like for Harjas as a child?
Considering that there are at least 21 Indian-origin CEOs of billion-dollar companies, what was it like for Harjas growing up in Delhi?
Harjas on moving to the US over India due to the education system.
At Virginia Tech, Harjas pursued his passions for coding and Bhangra. How did these interests shape his experience?- How Harjas was hired at Revolut
Revolut
While at Revolut, Harjas scaled the wealth division from zero to 2 million users across countries.
What are his biggest learnings from that experience?
When building out products, does Harjas have a secret sauce for asking questions to uncover user needs?
Does Harjas believe that simplicity is always better when it comes to product design?
How does Harjas prevent feature creep?
Why does Harjas think revoluters look at the world differently?
Was Harjas happy at Revolut?
SHARES
What was Harjas's first investment in life?
What were the thoughts that motivated Harjas to start Shares?
Knowing the challenges of fintech from his time at Revolut, why did Harjas start Shares?
How does the investing business model work at Shares?
Did Harjas have a mentor in the early days?
What was the single most important lesson he learned from them?
How did Harjas find raising the first $10 million for Shares?
How does Harjas balance user-centric product decisions with business value?
When thinking about new features in an exploration session, what does Harjas like to do?
How does AI change the actual creation of product design?
Hiring
What is the importance of an ideation sparring partner, in the early days of a start-up.
What’s Harjas’s perspective on the need to build in person?
Does Harjas know pretty quickly when someone is a good fit for his team?
If Harjas could go back to the moment he and the core team committed to building Shares, would he do it again?
What’s been Harjas’s biggest hiring mistake?
Does Harjas think it's wrong to be in it for the money?
What advice does Harjas have for the young founder who is starting to think about their first hire?
How does Harjas plan on giving back to the community?
Quickfire- What is Harjas’s biggest regret?
How does Harjas maintain an optimistic mindset, especially in the challenging space of finance?
Harjas is a fan of the ALL IN podcast.
Who is his favourite out of the four besties?- Does Harjas believe that he's built different?
Is Harjas happy?
From whom does Harjas continuously learn in his work life?
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Harjas Singh is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of SHARES which has one goal: to empower you to become a smarter investor, so you can take charge of your financial future.
Harjas is the most user-focused CPO’s I’ve ever met, a clairvoyant when it comes to the future of investing, and a wizard at building teams.
🛠️ Building SHARES.io, raised over $50m
🔮 Product Visionary (I mean just check out the app)
🚀 Scaled Revolut Wealth from 0 - 2m Users
In this episode, we get into the depths of :
1 - Understanding how his childhood in India and education in the USA led him to Tech
2 - Scaling wealth at Revolut from an idea to 2m users
3 - Building Shares and the Future of retail/consumer investing
4 - How do you build a kick-ass Team
Background
When did Harjas find his love or interest for tech and finance?
What was family life like for Harjas as a child?
Considering that there are at least 21 Indian-origin CEOs of billion-dollar companies, what was it like for Harjas growing up in Delhi?
Harjas on moving to the US over India due to the education system.
At Virginia Tech, Harjas pursued his passions for coding and Bhangra. How did these interests shape his experience?- How Harjas was hired at Revolut
Revolut
While at Revolut, Harjas scaled the wealth division from zero to 2 million users across countries.
What are his biggest learnings from that experience?
When building out products, does Harjas have a secret sauce for asking questions to uncover user needs?
Does Harjas believe that simplicity is always better when it comes to product design?
How does Harjas prevent feature creep?
Why does Harjas think revoluters look at the world differently?
Was Harjas happy at Revolut?
SHARES
What was Harjas's first investment in life?
What were the thoughts that motivated Harjas to start Shares?
Knowing the challenges of fintech from his time at Revolut, why did Harjas start Shares?
How does the investing business model work at Shares?
Did Harjas have a mentor in the early days?
What was the single most important lesson he learned from them?
How did Harjas find raising the first $10 million for Shares?
How does Harjas balance user-centric product decisions with business value?
When thinking about new features in an exploration session, what does Harjas like to do?
How does AI change the actual creation of product design?
Hiring
What is the importance of an ideation sparring partner, in the early days of a start-up.
What’s Harjas’s perspective on the need to build in person?
Does Harjas know pretty quickly when someone is a good fit for his team?
If Harjas could go back to the moment he and the core team committed to building Shares, would he do it again?
What’s been Harjas’s biggest hiring mistake?
Does Harjas think it's wrong to be in it for the money?
What advice does Harjas have for the young founder who is starting to think about their first hire?
How does Harjas plan on giving back to the community?
Quickfire- What is Harjas’s biggest regret?
How does Harjas maintain an optimistic mindset, especially in the challenging space of finance?
Harjas is a fan of the ALL IN podcast.
Who is his favourite out of the four besties?- Does Harjas believe that he's built different?
Is Harjas happy?
From whom does Harjas continuously learn in his work life?