Product Champs

1:45 Motivation for this week

03:29 Pod analytics

04:53 Avi’s experience

06:35 DZ’s experience

09:55 One-way doors

10:30 Incremental success

11:50 Enjoyable pain?

14:40 Ahmad’s experience

17:05 Bidding and pricing

21:20 Samir’s experience

24:20 The “bundle”

30:50 Competition hurts

34:15 Maybe you shouldn’t buy a house

37:20 There’s no product here

39:30 Cutting out the agent?

40:00 Jobs to be done

42:45 Virtual homes

44:10 Unbundling

49:10 Lower friction of moving

53:15 Too much has changed

54:08 Ahmad’s idea

56:25 Avi’s idea

57:25 Samir’s idea

1:00:55 DZ’s idea

1:07:40 Carve-outs

1:19 Recap of Episode #6

5:35 Samir’s experience

7:30 DZ’s experience

8:58 Avi’s experience

12:15 Ahmad’s experience

15:30 Bear arguments

17:00 Jokes, use-cases and platforms

21:20 Bull arguments

22:00 Has Bitcoin become less useful but more valuable?

23:25 Store of value

29:00 Broad vs. shallow

39:00 Environmental concerns

44:40 Carve-outs

3:31 Recap of Episode #5

05:40 Communication at scale

09:10 Strategy != List of Problems

11:13 Talking about Uncertainty

12:53 Inside your team vs. outside your team

15:30 Repetition

17:32 Predictability

19:00 Share the “scorecard” proactively

21:19 Feel the feels

23:50 3 narratives about meaning

26:18 Catchy headlines

28:25 Incentives

30:13 Easy No

32:38 Relationships

35:00 Trustworthiness

36:50 Recognizing not-controllable vs. controllable

38:50 Decision Quality

41:00 When does data help?

45:15 A decision > no decision

46:45 Moving forward

48:20 Carve-out - Apple’s gaffe

52:30 Carve-out - Balance

53:40 Carve-out - Apple’s privacy stance

55:40 Carve-out - Great conversations

With Ahmad Ismail, Avi Swerdlow, Dacheng Zhao and Samir Pradhan

0:40 Recap of Episode #4

4:28 What do we mean by failure?

5:19 Finding a solution that’s looking for a problem

6:50 When nobody cares

8:50 You only fail when you don’t learn anything

9:36 Dacheng’s failure

14:24 Users that don’t exist

21:05 Not aligning with “Worldviews”

26:04 Avi’s failure

32:04 Lack of access

36:05 Segway vs. Bird

39:00 Neglecting Go-to-market

42:20 Good copy vs. bad copy

46:05 Ahmad’s failure

49:44 Wrong company

53:02 Existential threats

57:51 Samir’s failure

1:01:49 Historical baggage

1:05:23 When the team gives up

1:12:38 Single points of failure

1:14:55 Carveouts

With Ahmad Ismail, Avi Swerdlow, Dacheng Zhao and Samir Pradhan

1:35 Super Fans

6:17 How Samir became a Product Manager

10:10 Target rich environments

11:30 How Ahmad became a Product Manager

16:23 Building relationships

17:28 How Avi became a Product Manager

23:48 Nearest Neighbor Roles

25:14 How Dacheng became a Product Manager

32:15 Telling a product story

33:30 Doing the work

36:20 Talking about impact

38:18 Permissionless

40:40 Get a ‘Product’ title

43:40 Get good at interviews

44:41 Find a sponsor

45:40 The 3 steps … 1. Do the work 2. Get to the interview 3. Nail the interview

52:55 What would you be doing if you weren’t a PM?

59:23 Carveouts

Episode #3: Mo Money, Mo Problems

With Ahmad Ismail, Avi Swerdlow, Dacheng Zhao and Samir Pradhan

We go deep on a single question … what are good problems and how do you find them?

Episode #2: What is Product Management?  When you have to, how do you prioritize between Product, Team and Yourself?

With Ahmad Ismail, Avi Swerdlow, Dacheng Zhao and Samir Pradhan

2:30 = Recap of Episode #1

3:00 = What is Product Management?  What do Product Managers do?

23:11 = How do you prioritize between Product, Team and Self?

42:03 = Carve-outs and top of mind

Why we’re doing this, what it means to get “inherited” vs. “hired”, and how we think WFH will play out.