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[Replay] Anil Sabharwal: Multicultural roots to leading THREE of Google's nine BILLION active user products!


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This is a replay of our very popular episode with Anil Sabharwal (one of his only public interviews to date!). Anil is Vice President of Product Management at Google. The company has nine products that have achieved the coveted Billion active users goal, and Anil has built and led three of them in Google Photos, Google Chrome and Google Drive. He is currently heading up a new product in Fitbit. 

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In this (replay) episode #118 w Anil Sabharwal learn about:

  • Sunrise in Canada with Indian roots
  • Reflections on his early influences and leaving home at age 17
  • Highlights / Learnings from 10-15 year career prior to joining Google
  • Moving to Australia in 2006
  • Achieving momentum in early days at Google
  • Unlocking skills working across new markets, segments and industries in building billion user products and becoming globally recognised product leader
  • Building Google Photos into a billion user product
  • Leadership responsibility across product, design and engineering
  • Promotion to managing Google Chrome, ChromeOS and Communications
  • Product DNA differences between Photos and Chrome
  • Transition from Chrome to a blank canvas and prioritising values
  • Why is the product function king (or queen) at Google?
  • Key metrics to monitor in your product function
  • Make a few people very happy vs a lot of people semi happy
  • Success at 50

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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