Fareed Mosavat

8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 23, 2022 by Fareed Mosavat · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Oct 23, 2022
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Mosavat: Product managers only improve by working on real products, not exercises
“You can't do homework. You can't do exercises. You can't do fake stuff. You have to work on real products at real companies with real customers, with real data to get better at product management.”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 17:25 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022 positive
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Mosavat: Earning sponsorship requires understanding two organizational levels up and down
“I think to be in the seat where people want to sponsor you, I think you have to show a handle on not just what you're doing, but how that relates to all of the things around you. So I call this like going two stack levels up, two stack levels down in terms of …”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 28:25 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022
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Mosavat: Leaders must propose needed resources rather than accept constraints
“I think one of the bigger mistakes that new ICs make on teams is they still treat problems the same way they did as ICs, which normally when you run a pod, basically your job is how do I deliver the most value with the resources I have? When you're a leader, i…”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 38:44 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022 neutral
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Mosavat: Product-market fit expansion takes only two forms
“And there are two forms of product market fit expansion. There's either taking the same product. And finding a new audience, things like internationalization or vertical, like I'm going to sell the same product to a different vertical because we're a verticali…”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 42:05 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022
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Reforge employs around 150 full-time staff
“I believe we are at just around a 150 total employees across the whole company right now. That doesn't include our executives and residents, subject matter experts, and the partners we work with. That's full-time employees working on the business.”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 12:14 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022
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Mosavat: Product management lacks standardized pre-training or baseline credentials
“One of the trickiest bits about it is that there's no clear, obvious pre-training you can do that gives you like a baseline set of understanding that you can use to be a product manager.”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 14:28 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022 negative
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Mosavat: Closer marketing partnership would have increased Slack impact
“What I think is I look at What could have moved the needle more and what could have made me a more sex successful leader at that company, it would have been partnering more closely with marketing, for instance, to figure out how we could be working on things t…”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 49:25 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
Oct 23, 2022
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Mosavat: New managers must shift mindset from doer to editor
“You have to shift from doer to editor is the way I think about it. You have to shift from my job is to do the work to my job is to make the work better. My job is to plus the work, to review the work, to help other people solve problems.”
Fareed Mosavat Oct 23, 2022 ▶ 37:34 How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
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