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Published · transcript-backedBangaly Kaba: belief
26 May 2024 Lenny's Podcast Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)
“" I think there's a lot of assumptions that the product works, but a lot of times teams will surprisingly build the pieces of a flow but not actually build the experience, the output.”
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- Bangaly Kaba
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- 26 May 2024
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…Okay, so a couple takeaways here. One is you think about the value prop at every interaction of both sides, if it's a multi-sided marketplace or if it's just like, "Why would I be doing this?" So it's like, "Why would I send an invite to my friend? Why would I share this photo? Why would I open up Instacart?" And then you think about the jobs to be done during the day of a potential user and how can we flow into that versus not connect to their actual day-to-day experience? And is the product actually working? As I'm doing this, I'm looking and saying, "Is the product actually set up to deliver these things? Do we actually see it work or not? " I think there's a lot of assumptions that the product works, but a lot of times teams will surprisingly build the pieces of a flow but not actually build the experience, the output. They don't design it in a way where you're getting the real output that you need. That's such a easy to miss point you're making here, which is you just think about, "Hey, I have Taco Tuesday. I'm actually as a product manager on Instacart. I'm going to open up the app, and use it in this use case and see how it goes."…
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