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Your story determines your valuation- Aswath Damodaran

THE STORY OF BUILDING UNRAVEL - Founder, Abhimanyu Dasgupta by Sapata Ravi Kumar

Lessons from building Dream Factory - William Longhurst

Startup advisor and early-stage investor focused on network effects. "Creator" of Breadcrumb.vc and Applied Network Effects (one of the highest rated courses on Maven) — both are globally renowned resources to learn about network effects. I'm also part of the Atomico Angel Program, where I invest in early-stage startups with network effects. Please direct all pitches and consulting/speaking requests to sameer@breadcrumb.vc. 14 years of experience in the technology ecosystem — distributed between technology startups and investing. For much of this time, I studied technology business models and network effects in a professional capacity and via independent projects. Previously, spent 5 years at App Annie, a Sequoia-funded, late-stage startup during its hypergrowth phase. There, I led a global, cross-functional team, working across product, marketing, and sales. Advised leading tech companies like Spotify, Shpock and Trainline. Before that, I was an early-stage investor focused on commerce businesses. I have been quoted or mentioned in leading publications, including Reuters, Sifted, Business Insider, The Guardian, Sifted, and Techcrunch. My prior independent work has also been referenced in Philip Tetlock's book, Superforecasting.

What Does An API - First Company Look Like- Prashant Agrawal, PM, Postman

How To Unlock Product Growth With A Kickass API Strategy Vijay Bhaskar Rao, Lead PM, Integrations

How To Be Vision - Led Than Iteration - Led - Radhika Dutt, Radical Product Thinking Movement

Why Roadmaps Are A Waste Of Time - BRAD DUNN, Chief Product Officer, Whispir

How I Lead Products In Startups - Colin Pal, Head Of Products, Gnowbe

How I Build Value - Driven Products - Jens - Fabian Goetzmann, Head Products , RevenueCat

Lessons From Designing World Class Software Products: Laks, Director, Product Design, Zendesk by Sapata Ravi Kumar

On Design Leadership And UX-PM Collaboration by Ranjeet Tayi, UX Director, Informatica

HOW TO BUILD A CUSTOMER FEEDBACK STRATEGY? by Matei Culcer, Co-founder, ProdCamp

The Story Of Building Chesslang.com by Arun Srinivas, CEO

Episode 2: 3 Important Lessons/ Trends I Picked In Last 2 Weeks In this episode I cover three topics: 1. Ideas on Content Creation by Shaan Puri 2. Opportunity cost of pursuing career/business choices 3. How high agency is a reflection of your success in life

Abhilash Krishna on Lessons from Building Carestack

Demystifying Hardware Product Management : Andreas Koenig, CEO of ProGlove by Sapata Ravi Kumar

How to Become an Invaluable Product Manager by Maya Grossman

In the book, Build what matters, Rajesh and Ben introduce you to their methodology for becoming a product-driven company. Through their tested strategies of stories and success. You'll learn how vision-led product management helps you achieve company objectives by meeting both current and future customer needs.

THE POWER OF PRODUCT-LED GROWTH (PLG) By Wes Bush, Best Selling Author by Sapata Ravi Kumar

Marisa Sires, VP, VP, Product, BuildingLink On Lessons Drawn from her product leadership journey

join me in LIVE conversation with Bala Subramaniam, Ex- Head of Fulfilment Product at Instacart. In the conversation, we will learn: 1. How he built a supply-side framework (activation, engagement and retention) for marketplace equilibrium. 2. What is product operations? 3. War Stories 4. How to build influence as a product leader? So thrilled!

Lewis Lim sharing the ESTEEM framework from his book, Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever

Graham Kennedy, COO, MyDoc on Navigating PM Careers, Choosing right startups to work for, negotiating salaries for senior roles etc.

April Dunford on How to Nail Product Positioning

Sidharth, Head of Product & Design, Headout on Payments Based Products Management

Mrinal Sharma, Sr PM, Flipkart interviews Renuka Thakur, Sr PM, Shopify on Product Management Craftsmanship. They touch upon varied PM skills like Prioritization, Stakeholder management, leadership etc.

Mukesh Ghatiya, Product Strategy Consultant,Ex-PM leader, OLX & Common Floor on Real Estate Product Management

Alexandru Bleau, Product Manager at Trivago on A/B and Multivariate Testing. Trivago is a hotel and lodging meta search engine based in Germany and serves over 55 countries worldwide.

Peter Stadlinger, Group Product Manager at Adobe on Why personas, use cases, and verticals are lifeblood of PMs.

Matthias Walter, Founder, Platform Innovation Kit on which business canvases to use to build platform products and businesses.

Lewis Lin, author of the very popular PM book, Decode and Conquer on lessons learnt in building his latest startup, PeopleMaven.

Vishrut Shukla, PM, Product Partnership & Growth at Microsoft on fundamentals of Product Partnership.

In this mega episode of 2 straight hours, Sachin Rekhi bares it all with meticulous details on how he built his latest product, Notejoy from scratch. You are gonna love this!

Blair Reeves, Principal Product Manager at SAS talks about his book, Building Products for the Enterprise. In the episode Blair talks about what it takes to build products for Enterprise customers and how different it is than building for SMBs and startups. You can pre-order Blair's book at : http://buildingforbusiness.com/

Saeed Khan, a veteran product leader on how to manage a product career

Saswati Saha Mitra, User Research Manager, Uber on how she manages user research at Uber Questions: 1. Though I briefly mentioned about your career, do your career? 2. Help us understand a regular day or week at Uber for you? 3. What is your approach to solving a problem or building a new feature? 4. Uber is in 59 plus countries how does she make sure the research findings are valid for all. As in do you just research in the US and extrapolate? 5. I am sure you work closely with product managers in day to day work. How do you compliment product managers with your effort? 6.When should a product company invest in user research? 7. How to make sure research scales? How to get PMs involved in inception research and designers to do their own validation research of their designs? 8. How can product managers hone their user research skills? 9. War Stories: This is an important segment where our guests share with us the most important product challenge they faced in their career and how did they succeed. Or even if they could not, what were the lessons learnt. 10. What is the advice she would give to someone interested in ux research career? 11. What are some qualities do you look for while hiring researcher in your team? 12. What according to you are the vital skills needed for a product manager to succeed in building successful products?

Ram Papatla, VP, Product Management, Flipkart on how he build products at Flipkart

Marty Cagan on his new book, Inspired 2: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Here are the questions I had for Nitin: 1. Give us a brief rundown of your career so far. 2. Talking about blogs...What gives you the motivation to write blog posts? Why do you think that is important for you? 3. You wrote a Linkedin blog post in 2014 that became so popular and viral. It was titled How I got my first valley based product management job in 5 weeks. Do you want to share the story. 4. What does Group Product Manager mean? How does it differ from a Sr Product Manager? 5. How do you plan a roadmap? 6. Share a war story from your career 7. What according to you are the most vital skills for a PM. 8. You are an avid reader. What are your best books recommendations for PMs

In this second part of Product Management Festival, Zurich summary, I caught up Mina Radhakrishnan, the first Product lead at Uber, Ram Papatla, VP, PM, Flipkart, Tim Herbig, Head of Product, Iridion, Dave Meyer, Sr PM from Atlassian and others.

Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. Creator of the Agile Self-assessment Game. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean, and Quality, and a well known speaker and author. As an adviser, coach and trainer he helps organizations with deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.

I recently attended Product Managememt Festival in Zurich and was blown away by its sheer quality of content and inspiration. I have attended most product conferences here in Europe and I must admit PMF’s bar is very high on content and value. More than 750 product people attended from over 28 countries. It was brimming with energy and passion. Being the ambassador of the Festival, I was also the official podcaster of the event. As part of this arrangement, I was interviewing speakers after their talk asking them to summarise their talks within 7-8 minutes. I was also able to capture some off stage conversations that the audience was having with the speakers after that talk. In this podcast I am attempting to stitch them all together and present to you a summary of the action. I have split the entire summary into two episodes. In this episode, I am covering day 2 of the conference. In episode 2, I will cover day 1.

Ash Maurya, creator of Lean Canvas and author of the very popular book, Running Lean. He has built many product over the last decade and while doing that shared his learnings from his experience to the world. He talks about how Customer Focus Canvas helps define problems better.

Christian Hassa on how Impact Mapping solves customer problems bbetter

Tim Herbig on Using Hypothesis Template for Product Development, Lateral Leadership and other PM insights

Kalyan Nistala, Product Manager, Netflix shares about how he builds products at Netflix and previously with Amazon.

This is a second episode with Alan Klement on book on Jobs to Be Done called When Coffee & Kale Compete

Geoff Beresford Product Manager, Google shares what does it take to be a PM in Google, how are PM teams structured, best practices etc.

He is Tony Ulwick, Founder and CEO of Strategy. Tony is the pioneer of jobs-to-be-done theory and the inventor of Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI), a powerful innovation process with a documented success rate that is 5-times the industry average. Tony has been granted 12 patents for his game-changing innovation practices, which result in products that help customers get a “job” done better. This is what Philip Kotler, the marketing guru says about Tony, “I call Ulwick the Deming of Innovation because, more than anyone else, Tony has turned innovation into a science.” Another Harvard Prof and Management Guru Clayton Christenson, in his popular book, Innovator’s Solution cites Tony Ulwick as the originator of Jobs to be done. Tony has contributed many times to HBR and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Suresh Krishna, Director, Product Management, Oracle on How he Builds Products in a Large Enterprise