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Held executive product positions at eBay, Netscape, Continuus and HP; start-ups and Fortune 500. Responsible for business strategy, product strategy, product management, product design, user experience and product development process for leading Internet companies.

Author, along with Chris Jones, of "EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products," published in 2020.

00:00 Introduction & Career at HP

04:30 Leadership and Engineering at HP

10:50 Leaving HP

18:36 a good CEO and CTO

23:54 The Hp way of scaling & Recruiting the right people

29:35 Turning a team member into an owner

39:50 Career at Netscape

46:03 Learning lessons from Netscape

49:20 Dealing with Hypergrowth & eBay

57:02 Struggling with scale at eBay

& Recruiting talent and promoting managers

01:10:44 The thought process behind leaving eBay

& Career after eBay and working with Startups

01:15:58 The success of people coming from Silicon Valley

01:24:32 Book Inspired and Empowered & Closing