CNN, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 26Upasna Gautam 12Adam Grenier 1
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An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Upasna is a product manager at CNN, where she leads the team responsible for the content management system that journalists use to write and publish their stories. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Lenny Rachitsky And I've always wondered what it was like to build product at a company like CNN, which is like very different from where most, I don't know, tech PMs work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 Upasna Gautam Coming off of a legacy system after several years onto a brand new one is a big change at a place like CNN. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 Lenny Rachitsky And you talked about what you work on at CNN, which is the content management system and things around that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Upasna Gautam So I mentioned earlier, my team sits on CNN Digital 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 Lenny Rachitsky What would surprise people most about how product is built at CNN? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:53 Lenny Rachitsky I'm curious about the day-to-day operational work of how you build product at CNN. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:42 Lenny Rachitsky I'm curious if there's any fun or unique traditions or rituals that the CNN product team has. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:38 Lenny Rachitsky Do you have kind of a, is there like a philosophy at CNN of how much goes to bugs maintenance versus new stuff, or is it per team?
- ▶ 29:36 Upasna Gautam And, you know, politics and election season at CNN is, is super bowl like times a hundred.
- ▶ 33:39 Lenny Rachitsky And that's a good segue to the next question I had is just having built product at CNN and seeing how the product team works. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:03 Lenny Rachitsky The circles back to our original topic about mindfulness and meditation, other than just living through it and either becoming a meditation expert or having worked at a company like C&H that has a lot of this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:38 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine many people listening to this coming into thinking I'm going to learn about CNN and how they build product and then get a free meditation lesson.
- ▶ 44:29 Upasna Gautam And that's just because it hasn't been an integrated role for as long as it has been in big tech, but it is starting to become more and more, not just prominent now, but people are realizing the value and power of it because especially in…
- ▶ 52:15 Upasna Gautam One that I resonate a lot with because it's a lot along the lines of how we work at CNN around rapid development and, you know, time and flexibility being like key anchors of successful. 3 times in the scene
When to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- ▶ 18:32 Adam Grenier So instead of it being like cable, TV, it's sorry, it's coming from a box or, so it's primarily if you think of like ads on Amazon or Hulu or, or even if you go to like CNN.com