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Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:26:16 Stewart Butterfield Obviously, in the collective consciousness, a terrible name, and I shouldn't have chosen it, and I regret it, but by the time I realized that Dharma and Greg had already come out, it would have seemed like I was, like, you know, bandwagon…
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 37:57 Asha Sharma Like I could text my grandmother in India and know that she would get my text message
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 40:55 Peter Deng If you've ever been to another country, like in India, sometimes there are no street signs.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 14:04 Bob Baxley And Ajit grew up in rural India.
- ▶ 40:00 Bob Baxley Most of them were in India.
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 13:02 Sachin Kansal We do this, you know, anytime I go to a Brazil office, I go to an India office, I go to a UK office.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:02:33 Mayur Kamat Now that's not true for a lot of the countries, like in India, like a lot of products are only designed for Indian market.
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 1:03:09 Lenny Rachitsky The two pizza team concept I saw a tweet long ago where someone from India was like, there's always talk about two pizza teams, but pizzas in India are much smaller. 2 times in the scene
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
- ▶ 1:11:01 Gaurav Misra Like, my parents live in India, and they are the only ones in the neighborhood that know about ChatGPT, and they write these, like, amazing, like, notes to the community, just, like, with all these words, and
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
- ▶ 50:18 Cameron Adams Brazil, India, Indonesia, they're all in our top five markets, and they grow way faster than the US does.
Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
- ▶ 1:05:35 Bangaly Kaba You're bringing on people in India, or you're bringing on people in the Philippines, and their understanding of how it works, the phone they use, et cetera, all different.
- ▶ 1:26:08 Bangaly Kaba And, you know, we did, and we noticed a lot of really interesting things, especially in India. 2 times in the scene
A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
- ▶ 0:54 Lenny Rachitsky Vikrama heads all things product at Gojek, including product management, design, program management, research, and insights, with teams across India, Singapore, and Indonesia.
- ▶ 1:08:34 Vikrama Dhiman I came to, um, Delhi in only in 2013, and, uh, I joined Gojek in 2018.
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
- ▶ 1:30:24 Jason Fried I don't want to just have the Indian version because people in India might also have people that work in Brazil and they need the Portuguese version.
Failure
- ▶ 57:13 Gina Gotthilf Duolingo in India and didn't realize, because we couldn't have unless we went there, which we finally did, that most people set their phones, phone UI in India to English. 3 times in the scene
The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- ▶ 0:53 Lenny Rachitsky I've been looking to get more India-based product leaders on the podcast because this podcast has a large audience in India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Lenny Rachitsky I haven't told you this, but when I put a call out on Twitter and LinkedIn for people's favorite India-based product leaders, you were the single most recommended person. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Anuj Rathi So I think India started with, with some companies like make metric and so on, like way earlier, there were a few very interesting products being built in India, which were solving uniquely for the Indian consumers. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:52 Lenny Rachitsky You've helped build some of the most successful marketplaces in India and in the world.
- ▶ 1:05:26 Anuj Rathi Uh, the other book which I really love is, and recently Kunal Shah, who's the founder of CRED, an Indian startup, he suggested, is The Luxury Strategy.
Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
- ▶ 57:47 Paul Millerd The other person is also a former finance person in India, uh, and she's two years into the self-employment journey.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 9:16 Gina Gotthilf We're at like one third of India, one 10th of China, one 30th of the United States, meaning that, like,
- ▶ 41:25 unnamed speaker Duolingo in India and didn't realize, because we couldn't have unless we went there, which we finally did, that most people set their phones, phone UI in India to English, because typing in Hindi is hard, and of course there's a lot of… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:25 Gina Gotthilf But then in addition to that, every new AB test you want to run or every new hypothesis you have, if you now have a version of your app that's different in Mexico and China and India, whatever, you're going to have to run that test and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:48 Gina Gotthilf So for example, there's examples of these like in India and in some countries in Africa where like, I don't know, the desktop was skipped.
How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
- ▶ 1:10:51 Nilan Peiris Midnight's children, which is about, uh, partition in India, which is pretty through through a metaphor.
Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
- ▶ 1:03:25 Itamar Gilad We want to launch in other three countries, or we want to grow our usage in India by that much.
Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
- ▶ 1:14:51 Oji Udezue The book is intended to have a freemium, because I want this book to be available to people in Africa and India, across the world, so there'll be a free version of it.
Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)
- ▶ 41:53 Jeremy Henrickson Like what is the strategic value of building in the UK or Canada or Germany or India or wherever?
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 52:02 Nancy Duarte And, and the guy that was head of all of India was going to come over here and petition the CEO for a hundred million dollars, a hundred million dollar budget.
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
- ▶ 48:53 Kevin Aluwi Um, or we're outside of Silicon Valley and maybe some of the other kind of technology centers in, in, in the world, like China and India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:25 Kevin Aluwi Yeah, I, I think on specifically Indonesia, Indonesia's most people don't know that India is the fourth largest country in the world and that Southeast Asia holds almost 10% of the world's population.
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 14:41 Aarthi Ramamurthy and I came from a fairly middle-class family in India, like this, 4 times in the scene
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 1:10:51 Gustaf Alströmer Static is the Airbnb for EV charging in India. 2 times in the scene
Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
- ▶ 0:37 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, she was a product growth lead at Facebook, working on New User Growth, Internet.org, and growth of Facebook in India.
What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (The Beautiful Mess)
- ▶ 16:55 John Cutler You know, you're, you're on with, I, I was on with a team that was based in India and the, just the passion and curiosity.
- ▶ 53:12 John Cutler When you asked that question, I thought more about like individual moments where I spent time with teams or like that team I mentioned to you in India, where it's like everyone's super humble and whatever. 2 times in the scene
Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- ▶ 9:22 Gergely Orosz but it'll be higher than let's say regions like India or
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- ▶ 8:04 Alex Hardiman That was really trying to help micro sellers in markets like India and other parts of APAC who were coming online for the first time in really low bandwidth areas and just wanted to sell their goods through social commerce, really looking…
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- ▶ 12:03 Adriel Frederick So ethnically it's 35% Indian, like from East India, 35% African, 25% mixed.
- ▶ 53:22 Adriel Frederick I remember one example we had is like, I was watching someone sign up to the very first time for Facebook in India, and they're about to put their name in.
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 47:13 Jason Shah I want to be hungry, walking around in India, sweating in a hundred degree weather.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 5:10 Shreyas Doshi So I was born in Mumbai, Bombay, India, and I lived there for the first 21 years of my life. 4 times in the scene