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.
