Poorvi Shrivastav

GM & VP, Products, HubSpot · 0 appearances on the record.

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Poorvi Shrivastav is the GM & VP of Products at HubSpot, having previously worked at Salesforce. She specializes in hiring, scaling global product management teams, and maintaining cultures of innovation.

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Shrivastav: Prioritize Hiring for Culture and Values Over Raw Intellect

“Hiring, specifically relevant in the crazy market we are in right now, but hiring for culture and values over smartness and raw intellect.”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 1:58 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: Hire Ambition That Prioritizes the Company Over the Team

“As you scale the right, you need the right kind of ambition on the team, which is company over business, over team, over yourself. And that's an indicator of people who will ride the wave with you as you scale.”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 10:42 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: A 'Feedback Sandwich' Approach Sparked 50% Team Attrition

“The effect was that Sam took the feedback very lightly and did not make any changes. The long-term effect of this, the giving this kind of feedback, you know complements around constructive criticism, aka the shit feedback sandwich, was that 50% of the team at…”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 9:17 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: Companies can never establish leveling and growth frameworks too early

“Having a clear performance, leveling, competency, and growth path, and that can never come too early. You know, you can never be too early for establishing those guidelines.”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 16:31 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: Out-of-Cycle Promotions Signal a Deficient Performance System, Not Growth

“Number two is really avoiding out of cycle promotions and raises because they signal deficiency in the performance system as opposed to growth.”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 16:44 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: Growth Requires Balancing Promotions, Dismissals, and Successor Coaching

“Growth is two dimensional. One needs to constantly evaluate promoting, but also letting go of people and in the middle is coaching to have a successor.”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 5:19 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Shrivastav: Terminated employees must be let go with pride and respect

“If someone is leaving the company, let them leave with pride and respect, and don't take that away from them. So I always have that in the back of my mind that this person provided huge value when they were there in the company, and because of whatever reasons…”

Poorvi Shrivastav Mar 24, 2022 ▶ 27:52 Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav

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Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams \| HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi	Mar 24, 2022	24m	aired address

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