Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product and AI Officer, Atlassian. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Tamar Yehoshua is an executive and product leader who heads product and AI strategy across Atlassian's portfolio. She previously served as President of Product and Technology at Glean, was Chief Product Officer at Slack, and held senior product and engineering roles at Google and Amazon.
Everything Tamar Yehoshua said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Yehoshua: Operational dysfunction doesn't prevent commercial success
“What I've seen is when a company isn't well-run, like IT isn't working, marketing is broken, there are not enough people in HR, there's a lot of turnover, all of these things. I've seen that they're not correlated to the company being successful.”
Yehoshua: Design for tomorrow's larger user base, not today's
“The number of people using your product today is usually, unless you're a Google, far smaller than the number of people are going to be using your product tomorrow. So design it for the people, the bigger number of people who are going to be using it tomorrow.”
Yehoshua: AI productivity increases won't reduce tech headcount needs
“I don't think you'll need fewer. I think you'll be able to do more things. So like, think about every company, our head of sales came to me the other day and you need to hire more engineers because we just have so many things we need to build. Like when have y…”
Yehoshua: Building to compensate for LLM limitations is a dead end
“You need to make sure that your product gets better as the LLMs get better. And that too many people are building things to make up and compensate for the LLMs, that all that work is going to go away. So it's okay to do it to understand that it's going to go a…”
Yehoshua: PMs should not over-rely on metrics over intuition
“One of the things that I caution product managers about is that you don't want to be too overly reliant on metrics. And you want to also have an intuition. You want product managers who understand intuitively their customers and their product, and sometimes yo…”
Yehoshua: MySpace failed simply because its product got too slow
“MySpace. Well, they died because their product got too slow.”
Yehoshua: Follow top practitioners, not domains, to choose career moves
“What I believe, and I've always believed, is that you follow people. You learn the most from people. I don't look for domains or, I mean, some people have a domain like I'm super interested in, like, you know, climate or whatever, and they really want to work …”
Yehoshua: Stewart Butterfield is Silicon Valley's best product thinker
“I think he is the best product thinker in the valley, or he's not working in product right now. He's taking time off, but he's got this combination of long-term thinking in, in the details.”
Yehoshua: AI will blur boundaries between PMs, engineers, and designers
“And in five to 10 years, I think the lines between product managers and engineers and designers are going to blur because AI will enable product managers to build prototypes, to build designs, designers to build a pro like Figma already has their Figma AI.”
Yehoshua: AI Will Eliminate Rote PM Jobs but Spare Strategic Thinkers
“So if you're a PM who's, who's doing the kind of route work, it's going to take your job away. But if you're a PM who actually is strategic and can pull the pieces together and be creative and think how you do something that it's going to differentiate, becaus…”
Yehoshua: ChatGPT user retention is low due to workflow disconnects
“If you look at the stats from ChatGPT, from what I understand, ah, the retention is fairly low. Like people use it, they play with it, and then they don't get back to it because it's not in their workflow, and they have a hard time figuring out what they can a…”
Yehoshua: Companies must become well-run once reaching 5,000 to 10,000 employees
“Once you reach a certain scale and you've already conquered the market, then you kind of need to be well run. Then you bring in professional managers and things are about, The cost and executing and getting all the, like once you get to like over 5000 people o…”
Yehoshua: Lack of product-market fit is fatal without a distribution machine
“No product market fit is a death sentence. I'd say more like that. Like you can't, like if you've built a product that people aren't really excited to use, then you don't have a company. Cause it's very hard to do that unless you have a distribution machine an…”
Yehoshua: Financial returns are the hardest factor to predict when picking jobs
“I found that financial returns are the hardest to predict. You know, who's good. You know, who you want to work with. You can predict where you're going to learn. Cause even if a company fails, you learn a lot, but predicting financial success is so hard becau…”
Yehoshua: Jeff Bezos is by far the smartest person I've met
“He is by far the smartest person I've ever met in my life. In that, ah, I've worked with a lot of smart people, but his ability to go deep in any domain And nail that the core issue and remember, like we would have quarterly meetings and from quarter to quarte…”
Stewart Butterfield's 2014 Slack master plan already included AI
“So in 2014, he wrote a master plan for Slack, which was build a product people love. Build a network that Slack connect, build a platform that makes all of your other SaaS products more valuable, the Slack platform, and then do some magic AI stuff.”
Yehoshua: Marc Benioff builds marketing presentations like a product manager
“He approaches his marketing presentations, like a product person approaches their building their product.”
Yehoshua: Slack employees use zero internal email
“No email, unless you're dealing with somebody external and now it's mostly Slack Connect anyway.”
Yehoshua: Google's PR head personally called an upset IC engineer
“She was in charge of all of PR and global policy at Google. So huge job. And I emailed Rachel and I'm like, Hey, do you have like an FAQ or something that I can help me? Cause I don't know why you made this change and that I can help explain to the engineer on…”
Glean uses AI to summarize feature requests from Gong transcripts
“We use Gong at Glean to record our, all our sales calls. We have a Glean app that will read all the Gong transcripts, put them in a spreadsheet in in a certain format of who the AE is, et cetera, and then summarize all the top requested features from all the G…”
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