Vikrama Dhiman (Head of Product at Gojek) discusses the unit economics and monetization models of micro-drama video streaming apps like DramaBox.
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Dhiman: Master complementary technical skills before focusing on product strategy
“My advice is if you're coming from design and research background, then you pick data or take. If you're coming from a data or tech background, then you pick design and research, and that gives you the maximum leverage because that's a skill that you will nece…”
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Dhiman: Mid-senior PMs must still personally write PRDs and notes
“I don't think, especially when you're starting off, that's
a very, very good
Think even when you are mid senior, I don't think that's a very, very good thing.
You have to have to be able to produce these artifacts, which are product artifacts.
Even if there ar…”
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Dhiman outlines three essential operational tenets for PM collaboration
“There are three tenets that I define in working well as a product manager with others. Number one is raise difficult issues without being difficult to work with. Bring out important topics without drawing importance to yourself. And finally, you are in charge …”
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Dhiman: PMs use labels like 'high agency' to excuse brashness
“I started understanding these things are not just signaling. They are also anti-signaling. They are like, oh, I'm high agency, so it's sometimes ok if I'm a little brash, if I cut corners somewhere, if I am, if I sometimes come across as a little rude to some …”
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Dhiman: Product managers can never achieve full mastery in soft skills
“For skills which are softer in nature, like communication and collaboration and community, those are skills that you will work on all your life. You'll never achieve anywhere near two or five on five on those ever.”
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Dhiman: Rapid-rising PMs excel across all three 'W' framework dimensions
“The really strong product managers are good at usually two or three, two of the three things. The ones who rise, and when they are rising, they are performing well on all the three axes.”