Kevin Yien
16 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2024 by Kevin Yien · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Aug 18, 2024
Yien: Frontloading role negatives at offer stage prevents six-month attrition
“And if you can tell them that up front and they can read that whole email and still be equally excited to join, you find yourself any plus higher. But if they read that and they're like, I don't know anymore, it's way better to say, great, this is not a good f…”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Aug 18, 2024 bullish
Yien: Most product teams underinvest in design capacity
“Most people I would say under invest in design point blank. And when you get to a certain scale, maybe things change, but like truly, I don't think most teams have experienced what it feels like to have a really high design ratio and what that actually does to…”
Aug 18, 2024
Yien: Easiest decision log setup tags decisions and schedules future reviews
“This is not what I do, but I think it's the easiest place to start. Spin up a Google doc or a notion page, just call it daily log and then bullet point out like the date of today. And then as you're going through your day, you have a meeting, just type in the …”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Yien: Layoffs reflect mismatched organizational needs, not personal incompetence
“There is a difference between you not being good at something and a business or company not needing that thing at a particular moment in time, or you being very good at something, but not in the way that a company needs.”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Yien: Synchronous silent doc reviews iterate faster than async feedback
“The latency between a comment or question and a quick followup from the author just pushes that cycle speed really long in a way that doesn't need to be. And so when people are trying to find out, like, how do you move faster? Like this actually is one of thos…”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Yien: People should buy their own domain and build handcrafted personal websites
“I really do recommend that for anyone with the curiosity and the desire, To buy your domain. Even if you're never going to write anything on it, you're never going to share it out. Just own a little piece of the internet. It feels good.”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Yien: Auditing hiring scorecards against employee performance exposes interview flaws
“I think some of the best companies actually do have a practice around this. Where, you know, they had a six, 1218 month check-in on new hires. And they then compare, you know, their sort of performance against level hired at and then review against the scoreca…”
Aug 18, 2024 negative
Yien: Scaling Companies Naturally Pull PMs Into Internal Busywork
“As a company gets bigger, as teams get more complex, It's very easy and natural to spend more time on things that are internally focused and not externally focused, and I think we just all have to have, like, hypersensitive antenna to that so that we don't fal…”
Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024
Yien: Unsell emails only work at the final offer stage
“And so they ask, can you either not send this thing or can you send it at the very beginning? And my answer is no, because I don't know what they're afraid of yet. I have to go through the whole process to actually understand the thing that's going to potentia…”
Aug 18, 2024 negative
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Yien: Autobiographies are the ultimate cheat code for adopting mental models
“The type of book by volume that I read and get the most joy from are autobiographies and memoirs. It is just like the ultimate cheat code to spend time with people that you respect are interested by or want to learn from. Like, could you imagine what it would …”
Aug 18, 2024 positive
Aug 18, 2024
Yien: Delayed Square for Restaurants launch three times to ensure product quality
“We were given a pretty strict deadline that we needed to launch by and I pushed it out three times. And that's not because of this one animation, but it's because of a series of decisions where we said, this is what we believe we need to ship. And this matters…”