Incubating 0 to 1 Products and story behind GameSnacks | Ani Mohan (GenAI Product Lead, Google. ex-GM Game Snacks)

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Somehow I Manage Product Teams

Numberlock Labs

12 episodes

5 days ago

Somehow I Manage Product teams is about conversations with Product Leaders from organizations of all sizes (Growth Stage, Late Stage, super big companies) to uncover how each of them skillfully wield the art of managing people and products, what makes a good and successful product leader and finally zooming into the brass tacks of tactics, rituals and processes that’s worked for them - and can possibly work for each of you listening.

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Incubating 0 to 1 Products and story behind GameSnacks | Ani Mohan (GenAI Product Lead, Google. ex-GM Game Snacks)

Somehow I Manage Product Teams

35 minutes 19 seconds

2 years ago

Incubating 0 to 1 Products and story behind GameSnacks | Ani Mohan (GenAI Product Lead, Google. ex-GM Game Snacks)

Description

I’m joined by Ani Mohan from Google.

Ani leads the product team at Google Labs building three new generative AI products across (1) software development, (2) video, and (3) 3D.

Previously, Ani was co-founder and general manager of GameSnacks, a web gaming platform reaching 35M+ monthly players. GameSnacks was funded by Area 120 and acquired by Google Ads in Jan 2022.

Ani was also featured in Forbes 30 under 30 under the games section during his time leading the GameSnacks products and business.

In this episode

we talk about

1) Ani’s experience building GameSnacks as part of Area120 - Google’s incubator

2) Tips for folks looking to build 0-1 Products

3) Building products for Generative AI

This was recorded weeks before Google I/O and understandably why we couldn’t talk much about what Ani was working on. But goes without saying that Google took the challenge came out dancing and had some impressive announcements.

This has got everything - great success story and actionable advise on the hottest topic right now.

Chapters

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:02:27] Ani's Product Journey

[00:03:27] Inception of GameSnacks

[00:07:17] Incubating products within a large company vs Building a Startup

[00:10:48] Pivots in GameSnacks to reach Product Market Fit

[00:16:34] Advice on building 0->1 products

[00:20:38] What excites Ani about GenAI

[00:23:24] Building AI products

[00:30:00] Rapid Fire

Where to find Naveen

Twitter : twitter.com/@numberlock11

Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/naveenpitchandi

Instagram : instagram.com/@numberlock11

Where to find Ani

Twitter : twitter.com/ani_c_mohan

Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/anirudhmohan/