JM Nickels
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2024 by JM Nickels · across every show →
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Oct 6, 2024 neutral
JM Nickels: DoorDash culture sometimes leaned toward 'ready, fire, aim' execution
“DoorDash in my experience would do that sometimes where we used to actually even half joke there. Some of us leaders would be like, it's like, ready, fire, aim. And it was like, people would be like, I'm just going to run through a wall. I have no idea if that…”
Oct 6, 2024 negative
Nickels: Focusing on optics and decks stalled his promotions at Uber
“The more I focused on yeah, the, how I show up and optics and having a good deck and all this, the less I got promoted. And then the more I dropped focusing all that. Cause like for my first few years of Uber, I was like hanging out as a senior PM. And then I …”
Oct 6, 2024 negative
Nickels: Product leaders cannot craft long-term vision in 30-minute meeting gaps
“It's not like something you can just schedule 30 minutes for in the middle of your day of packed OKR reviews and run on ones and meetings... Like to me, it's still insane. Like how many product managers, leaders of all kinds, right. Just run the schedule of li…”
Oct 6, 2024 positive
Nickels: Product vision must start with trends independent of your company
“I typically like to start with the former, which is just like, what will the world move towards absent me? Just trying to pick a, you know, kind of bird's eye view of what I think is the trajectories are and trends and what's gonna happen. And then, yeah, you …”