Tal Raviv
Product Lead, Riverside. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Tal Raviv is a veteran product manager who championed the super IC path, choosing to remain a high-impact individual contributor at Riverside, Patreon, Wix, and AppsFlyer. Today, he teaches AI-driven product management productivity systems through Maven workshops and writes the newsletter Build AI product sense.
Everything Tal Raviv said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Raviv: Product is usually not the primary growth lever at tech companies
“So product sometimes is on this list. So one of the companies I worked at, like I mentioned, you know, product design product if that department does 10 X impact, then the company will succeed 10 X in the market. But it's, in my career, it mostly hasn't been p…”
Raviv: A single IC PM can now replace a director-level org
“You can imagine what might have taken, you know, 10 years ago, five years ago, a director organization, like a director level organization, and everybody reporting to that director to achieve something could probably be achieved with an IC now.”
Raviv: Every tech company's market win boils down to two key departments
“Over time, working at a bunch of hypergrowth companies, I've started to notice that there's some departments that Are the reason that company won the market and also started to realize that, and this is sometimes true of the department, you know, that I'm in p…”
Raviv: Product managers can switch industries without prior domain background
“You know, product manager role is just one of those roles where you can just keep doing it, you know, for a really long time because it just gets just keeps changing, and you can change industries, right, without having background in it. The situation changes …”
Raviv: Being a 10x PM is becoming table stakes due to AI
“Being a 10 X PM, for example, is becoming more and more table stakes, especially like you mentioned with AI, that's just the tailwind for all of that.”
Raviv: The product manager role is rarely urgently needed day-to-day
“Like, you realize how not urgently needed the PM role ever is, like, and first of all, over time, people really respect it.”
Raviv: Ignore user backlash to redesigns unless it persists past two weeks
“I think the key there is the two weeks, because if people are still complaining after two weeks, okay, then there's something here. But in those two weeks, there's gonna be a lot of feedback that comes from a resistance to change that they're gonna, you know, …”
Raviv: Many PM managers eventually insist on returning to IC roles
“And at the same time over the years, I've also noticed that the colleagues that I identify with the most, like the ones where I just feel I most relate to them, many of them have that same pattern where they've gone to, you know, team lead or director and so o…”
Raviv: PM career paths will shift away from people management
“And I think the, you know, this ties in because like the product career path is going to be even less about people management and just more and more about like leadership, right? And like the core core product manager skills.”
Raviv: AI writes user stories well, but humans must architect task breakdown
“And I would say the thing that.
We still really needed a person for was deciding how to break up this really, really big change into those stories.
Like what is the logical way to split it up engineering wise, which my team lead did.
But once you have that, li…”
Raviv has avoided opening Slack before noon for eight years
“I block off my morning from meetings. You know, a lot of people give that tip. I go even further and I don't open Slack before noon. I've been doing this for eight years. I don't open Slack at all”
Raviv: Working in a company's core growth department drives career step-functions
“And the, that department, if you're whatever role you have, if you're in that department for that company, that's going to be your career defining work. Like that's why it's so worth it. That's kind of, you're going to attract, like, you know, The best colleag…”
Raviv: A parenting book is the best product management book
“The best book on product management that I've read is called How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.”
Raviv: Product is usually the last department to build IC career ladders
“Product is usually like the last department to really just because it's smaller, I think.”
Raviv uses 'product scrapbooking' to cluster early customer evidence
“I call it product scrapbooking where I have this like massive notion database of every opportunity, big or small that's ever come up. And when a, like a piece of evidence, you know, out in the world comes in, it could be like a support ticket or like a CSM sen…”
Raviv: Poor user research twice wasted a growth team's entire quarter
“I've wasted twice, twice. I've wasted an entire quarter of a growth team's time because of my poor use of user research.”
Tal Raviv was warned by executives three times that he faced firing
“I have three times been a hair away from getting fired. And what I mean by that is a senior executive has come to me and said, you are a hair away from getting fired.”
Raviv: The best April Fools pranks exploit leadership's biggest strategic fears
“The best April Fools pranks are the ones that touch just ever so gently on people's biggest fears at that time. So in a work context, like whatever somebody's biggest strategic fear is that quarter or like that March of that year, right? Whatever people are ta…”
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