Tal Raviv

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2024 by Tal Raviv · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 22, 2024
Insight
Raviv: The product manager role is rarely urgently needed day-to-day
“Like, you realize how not urgently needed the PM role ever is, like, and first of all, over time, people really respect it.”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 25:05 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024
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Tal Raviv was warned by executives three times that he faced firing
“I have three times been a hair away from getting fired. And what I mean by that is a senior executive has come to me and said, you are a hair away from getting fired.”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 1:02:37 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024
Insight
Raviv: The best April Fools pranks exploit leadership's biggest strategic fears
“The best April Fools pranks are the ones that touch just ever so gently on people's biggest fears at that time. So in a work context, like whatever somebody's biggest strategic fear is that quarter or like that March of that year, right? Whatever people are ta…”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 1:10:47 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 neutral
Insight
Raviv: Ignore user backlash to redesigns unless it persists past two weeks
“I think the key there is the two weeks, because if people are still complaining after two weeks, okay, then there's something here. But in those two weeks, there's gonna be a lot of feedback that comes from a resistance to change that they're gonna, you know, …”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 50:56 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 positive
Insight
Raviv: Many PM managers eventually insist on returning to IC roles
“And at the same time over the years, I've also noticed that the colleagues that I identify with the most, like the ones where I just feel I most relate to them, many of them have that same pattern where they've gone to, you know, team lead or director and so o…”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 3:57 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Raviv uses 'product scrapbooking' to cluster early customer evidence
“I call it product scrapbooking where I have this like massive notion database of every opportunity, big or small that's ever come up. And when a, like a piece of evidence, you know, out in the world comes in, it could be like a support ticket or like a CSM sen…”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 26:05 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 positive
Opinion
Raviv: A parenting book is the best product management book
“The best book on product management that I've read is called How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 1:19:26 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 positive
Insight
Raviv: AI writes user stories well, but humans must architect task breakdown
“And I would say the thing that. We still really needed a person for was deciding how to break up this really, really big change into those stories. Like what is the logical way to split it up engineering wise, which my team lead did. But once you have that, li…”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 20:34 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024
Disclosure
Raviv: Poor user research twice wasted a growth team's entire quarter
“I've wasted twice, twice. I've wasted an entire quarter of a growth team's time because of my poor use of user research.”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 58:22 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
Sep 22, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Raviv has avoided opening Slack before noon for eight years
“I block off my morning from meetings. You know, a lot of people give that tip. I go even further and I don't open Slack before noon. I've been doing this for eight years. I don't open Slack at all”
Tal Raviv Sep 22, 2024 ▶ 23:48 Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
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