Bangaly Kaba
17 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2024 by Bangaly Kaba · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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May 26, 2024
Kaba: Manager is the most important variable in a work environment
“Manager is the most important variable in the environment because a great manager who is empathetic, who is aware of what's going on, who is a great communicator, has the ability to move the chess pieces around and to like fix some of these for you either imme…”
May 26, 2024 neutral
Kaba: Career impact depends on evaluating environmental fit and personal skills
“The framework is really that there's impact that you're really trying to drive. And that is the thing that is the most important. And the impact is only achievable by looking at two sets of kind of variables, a set of variables related to the environment inste…”
May 26, 2024
Kaba: Job candidates must interview former employees to balance current staff optimism
“Whenever you talk to people who are at the company, they'll always try to tell you the best version of the company. The people left will tell you what the worst version or their version, and it's on you to, like, triangulate that information. But you need both…”
May 26, 2024 neutral
May 26, 2024
May 26, 2024 negative
YouTube lacked Instagram's shared mental model for product craft
“Instagram had just this fantastic culture of thinking about how do we ship high, high quality products, right? And what does product craft mean? And so that is something that, you know, I came to YouTube and my teams particularly, they didn't have a mental mod…”
May 26, 2024 positive
Kaba: Parallel 'understand work' acts as a velocity multiplier for product teams
“So every sprint, let's say you do a three-week sprint or a three-month roadmap, you're executing on the things that you have a lot of conviction around, and you're also doing understand work in parallel. And so at the end of the sprint, you have learnings from…”
May 26, 2024 positive
Kaba: Professionals should maintain a stable of three to four mentors
“I tell them it's actually better to have a stable of mentors. You want to have three or four. And ideally what you do is you meet with each one of them once a month on a different Friday of the month, right? And so you might have three or four people on every …”
May 26, 2024
Kaba: Ask connections for targeted problem-solvers rather than general mentors
“Where I see people find the most success is they ask, they tell people what they're working on or what challenges they have. And they say, you know, someone who I might be able to learn from who has done this or has good thinking about this recently, right? So…”
May 26, 2024 positive
Instagram's user retention doubled in 18 months after prioritizing friend connections
“And so that connection pivot was critical. It changed, it literally angle changed the retention on Instagram. And so if you, like, Google Instagram growth, there was, like, a tech crunch article about Instagram's growth that, you know, I think, 2017, 20 18, wh…”
May 26, 2024
Instagram's growth teams maintained a 60% to 70% experiment win rate
“I remember when I left Instagram, this is many years ago, but we had like, had 15 teams and we might've been running 12 to 20 experiments, a quarter a team. And I would say probably 60 to 70% of them were like positive and shippable, which is incredible.”
May 26, 2024 positive
Stack-ranking five core skills beats asking candidates for their weaknesses
“I'm going to give you five skills and I want you to stack, rank them for me. One to five. Right? So one being the one you're strongest at and five being the one you're relatively weak at. So like, it's way better than saying, give me your strengths and weaknes…”
May 26, 2024 positive
Strong communicators often outpace better executors in career advancement
“I think communication is the one that tends to be the most impactful, and you see this in a lot of ways, right? You see this with people who are poor executors, but incredible communicators, and they seem to continue to rise and rise because, like, you know, t…”
May 26, 2024 neutral
Kaba: Compensation and scope are lagging outputs of impact
“Compensation is a reflection of the input, the impact that you're having. And so, and your leveling, like how luck senior you are, how much scope you have, is a derivative of how much impact you're driving. The more impact you're driving at your company, the m…”
May 26, 2024 positive
Kaba: PMs must observe peer meetings to learn practice, not just theory
“If you're really a student of product, you can't just be a student of theory. You've got to be a student of practice too. Meaning you're going and you're looking. It's like, hey, I'd love to sit in your team meetings. Can I come watch? Or your PM meetings or y…”
May 26, 2024 negative