Kayvon Beykpour

10 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2022 by Kayvon Beykpour · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Product Reviews Serve Two Customers, the Team and Leadership
“I think there's like two customers for a product review. There's the team. That's a customer. And then there's like the leadership team. That's a customer.”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 29:24 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Leadership should distill product review feedback into written bullet points
“And so one of the things we've started doing and maybe there are better ways of doing it, but this is just like the way we've adjusted doing it is after the pro after we have the live product review, we have a debrief as a leadership team. 15 minute debrief wh…”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 40:00 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: People who need extreme clarity cannot thrive at startups
“There's so many ambiguities of being at an early stage startup and it is not a role. It's, it is not an environment where people who need extreme clarity can thrive in, I believe, right?”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 21:52 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Executive Overrules in Product Reviews Signal a Broken System
“Assume everything you hear from like leadership at product reviews, including from my mouth directly is just feedback and input and not a directive unless explicitly stated otherwise. Like in the five percent of time that we make a decision that is overruling …”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 35:36 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Twitter Held Three 45-Minute Executive Product Reviews Weekly
“So in terms of like the what we have product reviews on a week or I host product reviews on a weekly basis. And the reason I say I is like cascading down our product organization. Some of our product leads have their own cadences around product reviews as well…”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 27:43 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Angel investors shouldn't give unprompted product feedback
“Angel investing as someone who's very, who has strong opinions and convictions around Building product is, is, is always tricky business. Cause you have to know that you're so far from the details and you're, you shouldn't necessarily volunteer your perspectiv…”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 49:56 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022 negative
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Beykpour: Waiting too long to fire bad hires is founders' biggest mistake
“I think the most classical mistake is actually not in Making hiring mistakes, but in making the mistake of waiting too long to realize you made a mistake, right? Like that's in my experience, the way harder thing.”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 25:53 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2022
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Beykpour: Product managers must explicitly ignore certain customer feedback
“And your job as a team and as a product manager is to take all that input in. And make organization and prioritization out of chaos. You cannot react to all the things you should not react to all the things. And you should have a well-tuned barometer about kno…”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 37:12 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 6, 2022
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Beykpour: Product reviews serve two customers: product teams and leadership
“I think there's like two customers for a product review. There's the team that's a customer, and then there's like the leadership team that's a customer.”
Kayvon Beykpour Jul 6, 2022 ▶ 24:26 20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
Feb 3, 2023
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Beykpour: Big-tech PMs struggle at early startups due to excess structure
“Sometimes see like folks that have only worked at larger companies struggle with this because they're so used to having a lot of structure and clarity around like, okay, my job is this and therefore my expectations are this.”
Kayvon Beykpour Feb 3, 2023 ▶ 47:08 20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
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