Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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9 published records
01 / preference
“And I don't like to drive in snow. Even I, I avoid snowy days. But that is something that we still have to build as a capability in driving fully in snow now.”
02 / recommendation
“Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore and Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma are still sort of the two classics in product management that I have quoted a lot and I have recommended to many folks.”
03 / recommendation
“Yes. That is the one thing that I would say that somebody who's starting out as a product manager really try to follow that principle.”
04 / prediction
“L5 would be in any kind of road completely unstructured, off-roading in that kind of an environment, be able to drive without any map, without any priors, what have you. And we believe that by offering the kind of service that we are offering in Phoenix and in San Francisco through the rest of this year and other cities in future is it helps realize that the dream of the fully autonomous driving, in a big way, without having to go to L5.”
05 / recommendation
“I think that's a great takeaway that if you're finding that there's a buy-in and continued support for what you're building, focus on momentum and showing success.”
06 / recommendation
“The other big lesson, at least working in some of the large companies that I have had is it's also very important to know what you're not building. And this one is not only in big companies, I would say even in startups, it's extremely important to know what you're not building because you could very easily get swayed by customer X telling you to do this, customer y telling you to do that.”
07 / preference
“I'm going to say something that might sound a little cheeky, but I think the way to get promoted is to not want it too badly.”
08 / evaluation
“One other thing is that the concept of MVP, which is so widely popular in the SaaS product management world or product management world, in general, has a whole new meaning here at Waymo when you work in a product like this because safety is on top of mind for all of us and can't really cut corners on safety.”
09 / evaluation
“It's not a driver assist or aid system which relies on the human driver taking over when there's a complex situation. So I think that expectation is built into that kind of a product and so the human folks who are using that product will also have that mindset that, hey, I should be ready to take over when the situation demands because we've built the system from the get-go to work in a fully autonomous mode without a human driver intervention at the wheel.”