Shreyas Doshi: belief

7 Jun 2022 Lenny's Podcast Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking

“I was in meetings with Larry, Sergey, Eric Schmidt. And I think I particularly, if I were to pick one thing, I really appreciated Larry's strategic insight and particularly his ability to simulate the future to make better decisions.”

— Shreyas Doshi

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Speaker: Shreyas Doshi
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Claim type: belief
Recorded: 7 Jun 2022
Publisher: Lenny's Podcast
Episode: Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking

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…Let's do it. Okay. With regards to the founders and what I learned from the founders, Yahoo, I didn't work much with the founders. At Google, I had some interactions. I was in meetings with Larry, Sergey, Eric Schmidt. And I think I particularly, if I were to pick one thing, I really appreciated Larry's strategic insight and particularly his ability to simulate the future to make better decisions. And so... Twitter, I just overlapped very briefly with Jack's comeback as CEO back when he came back. And I think I was struck by his ability to listen and ask great questions in a few meetings that I was with him. And so I was really impressed by like, he would just listen a lot more than you would expect, say, the CEO to listen. And then he would just ask one vital question. And that's something I've tried to use in my leadership style ever since I saw that. Is there an example of that or a story of that happening that you think about?…

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