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Published podcast speaker
Books, apps, and tools
book / recommends
“I recommended the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson. I have recommended Elon Musk book. I have read the Ashlee Vance one fully. I'm in the middle of the Walter Isaacson one and I have recommended Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.”
book / recommends
“Maybe a boring answer, but these are the books I believe in. I recommended the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson. I have recommended Elon Musk book. I have read the Ashlee Vance one fully. I'm in the middle of the Walter Isaacson one and I have recommended Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. These are the three books. I think that there was a period of time in Silicon Valley maybe 10 years ago, and maybe this is still true, but everyone wanted to be Steve Jobs and they thought that they can just recreate being Steve Jobs. There was this fever in the valley, and the reason why you want to listen or read that book is you need to understand the context of what makes up the entire person. Yes, the person part is important, but how they apply their own context to the products that they ship and they change the world is important because not that I or anyone else can recreate what they did or what they're doing, but take the learnings from them and see how you can apply the same principles to your context. You're not going to behave the same way that they did. You're not going to build products the same way that they did, but you're going to give it your absolute freaking best because that's what your end users deserve and you're not going to compromise on that. That's sort of what my takeaway is, and I think that takeaway is extremely strong in the books that I talk about. And the Ben Horowitz book, it goes back to my concept of resilience. Some people have this really optimistic view of how life is in the corporate world or in the product world or in the CEO office. It's not so. These are lonely jobs, these are hard things, and how do you persist through that? I felt that that book was amazing at teaching me that.”
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01 / belief
“I think Lenny, that's a trick question. He wants to get me into trouble. I'm sure.”
02 / belief
“I can talk a little bit about how I think about, I think I've talked a lot about end users, but I cannot talk about end users enough.”
03 / belief
“I would say the team is using a lot of tools now. The team is using tools to build initial prototypes, initial mocks I should say.”
04 / belief
“We have a partnership with Walmart where we may send a courier who may pick up 15 different bags and deliver it to 15 different homes. So the need for human drivers on our platform or human earners I would say is just going to continue to increase because we're going to have multiple earning opportunities for them over time.”
05 / belief
“I went through our merchant setup flow, which I can just do by setting up a test account and I learned so many things of all the points of friction that we are putting in that flow.”
06 / belief
“As you progress in your career, you want to develop that gut as fast as possible, because in my opinion, that's what differentiates a good product manager from a great product manager, that they have developed some extra level of gut and they're able to make the correct decisions because of the experience that they have had over that time.”