Shreyas Doshi: Genuine product taste means identifying quality before seeing results
Shreyas Doshi · 4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google · Oct 31, 2024 · at 31:38
Product leader and executive coach Shreyas Doshi defines authentic product taste beyond aesthetic polish or hindsight evaluation.
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“Taste is about the ability To identify what is really good without needing to see its results.”
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