Some key topics that is discussed in this episode:

Cultural Shocks and Adaptation: Bruna shares her journey from Brazil to Estonia, detailing the cultural shocks she faced and her adaptation to Estonian life. She talks about her decision to study in Estonia and how she immersed herself in the culture, moving from law school to the tech industry.

Professional Growth and Market Expansion: The conversation delves into Bruna's role at Pipedrive, where she was involved in market analysis and expansion strategies. She emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs and adapting the product to different markets, sharing her challenges and learning experiences.

Common Struggles and Advice for Product Managers: Toomas and Bruna discuss the common struggles companies face when expanding into new markets, such as misalignment between teams and ignoring data. Bruna advises on the importance of communication, understanding the 'why' behind strategies, and the need for product managers to take ownership and be proactive in their roles.

I hope you like this episode! Feel free to comment, like and share as this will help tremendously us!If you want to contact Bruna, please do so through bebold.business or on LinkedIn via Bruna’s profile

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Today's Guest: Maksim Butsenko

Background: 6 years in Data Science at Bolt

Projects: Real-time pricing, user incentives, growth portfolio optimization

Current Focus: Customer service automation with LLM

In this episode:

* Maksim's journey and experience at Bolt

* The structure of the ML teams

* Cooperation between ML teams and Product teams

* Differences between Research based and Traditional PM

* Challenges and best practices in Research based PM

* ChatGPT for D&D, best ML model, and thoughts on AI automation

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:13 Welcoming the guest

3:16 Scaling Data Science Team at Bolt

5:29 Structure of Data Science Team at Bolt

9:40 Role of Product Manager

11:24 Where does Bolt use ML?

12:54 Does Bolt build in-house or use external tools for ML?

16:10 Progression of Data Science in Bolt

22:13 AI startups

24:28 Collaboration between Data Scientists and Product Managers

29:20 PM guiding the Team

33:33 3 data teams in Customer Support at Bolt

35:44 How Bolt started doing ML

36:06 LLMs at Bolt

37:01 Building Alfred

38:28 How to lead Research teams

43:51 How to plan DS / ML projects?

46:19 Estimating the Impact

50:10 How Bolt Estimated Impact of GPT-4

52:22 One metric at a time

53:44 LLM costs

55:48 Should your company use ML?

59:16 Complexity of doing Research

1:04:20 Research as a "secret sauce"

1:06:50 Expectations of Product Managers

1:09:08 Technical Expectations of Product Managers

1:10:53 Advice to PM in Research team

1:13:08 How Maksim devotes time for Research

1:16:16 Choosing the Right LLM / ML model

1:19:48 Maksim's Favorite ML model

1:20:56 D&D with chatGPT

1:27:14 Will AI automate everything?

Connect with us:

* Maksim Butsenko at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maksim-butsenko-1b13194a/

* Nikolay Roll at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolay-roll/

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In this episode Maria shares her most recent roadmap planning experience from Wolt, and Janika joins the discussion on what has been causing her stress around planning. Both share tips on how they have managed to reduce anxieties and share the load of decision making.

Questions that are discussed in this episode:

- What activities take place during quarterly planning?

- Who do we need to involve?

- Should planning be solely the product manager responsibility

-What can be some of the challenges PMs face during planning?

- Should you wait for company goals to be defined before planning?

Janika Liiv has 20 years of experience in the tech industry. She started off as a software engineer and currently works as a Product Manager at Katana. Janika has also been a founder of her own startup, a non-profit to get more women into tech, and an international product management conference called Refresh.

Maria Lasprilla has been a product leader over 10 years. She spent 7 years at Pipedrive and during that time managed to be both Head of Product and Head of Research. Most recently she worked at Wolt and now has started her own product consultancy Imblue. She is passionate about creating environments where product managers can thrive.

Referenced:

Janika Liiv at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janikaliiv/

Maria Lasprilla at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marialasprilla/

Refresh Conference: https://www.linkedin.com/company/refreshrocks/

Wolt: https://wolt.com/

Pipedrive: https://www.pipedrive.com/

Imblue: https://imblue.ee/

Katana MRP: https://katanamrp.com/

Teresa Torres: https://www.producttalk.org/

The Product Trio concept: https://www.producttalk.org/2021/05/product-trio/

Alan Watkins, 4D Leadership: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25855338-4d-leadership

Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-bad-strategy

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About the episode

I’m really excited to introduce the first episode of our podcast. Our guest is Maria Lasprilla. Maria is someone who is really good at making complicated thoughts easy to understand. This is a special skill that not many people have, and that’s why I thought she would be the perfect person to invite for our first episode.

I’ve known Maria for about a year now, and during this time, I’ve learned so much from her. She has a unique way of thinking that is different from most people. This has helped me to see things in a new way and to think about things differently.

I hope you’ll be as amazed by Maria as I am. Enjoy the podcast!

About Tallinn Product Group

Tallinn Product Group is a place for product enthusiasts to share their knowledge. We are a mix of different types of product people(technical, design, analytics, business…) and many of us are product managers or we work daily with product managers. Why we have started this platform is to explore Estonia’s success in creating unicorns. Our content varies with each creator, offering something for everyone.

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