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.