Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The book did not disappoint: it was a fascinating history starting from his childhood, to his early startup adventures with Zip2 and PayPal, to a deep dive into how he willed SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity into existence and ultimately to success despite the odds being continually stacked against him.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Last May, I spoke at the Front conference in Salt Lake City. 2017 Product Conferences. Conferences: Front Conference. It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. Full Transcript.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Unsure of what tech career path she wanted to tread, Oluwatobi’s career began at a startup. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.”

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. percent for a corporation.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. The Lean Startup. What was on that board?

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

I started as a software engineer, then tried my hand as a management consultant, account manager, venture capitalist, and startup founder before I found the right fit in product management. That’s why you wake up in the morning. What role do you think data has in product management? Feedback from generous mentors.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 18, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian , President/CEO and Founder of Bain Public , will be a speaker at the AI DevWorld Conference this November! The conference will cover a wide range of topics, including chatbots, machine learning, open source AI libraries, AI for the enterprise, and deep AI / neural networks. Conference Information.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

This critique of ‘Spotify’s Failed Squad Model’ is interesting for two reasons: It’s a great way of adapting a planned conference talk into something else that may have impact. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure. Squad product managers and designers reported to department heads.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

She is currently running a startup in Australia and lecturing on product management for INSEAD. She started her career as a software engineer. Berry Yang started as an engineer, worked in BI for ebay and is Chief Product Officer at CreditX in Shanghai. Her interviews on Product Management are a must watch!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey. It is very different than traditional software engineering. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode. It is very hard to do.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. People are connected for commerce, communication, collaboration, and more. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 22, 2021

He went against a lot of traditional advice for startups: staying in your lane; not going after big companies as your first customers; treating customer support as a cost centre…. He’s a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Jason is the founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign. Who is Jason VandeBoom?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. Tendayi Viki (Founder, Benneli Jacobs) – Clever Ideas Are Not Enough For Innovation from Business of Software Conference. You’ve all heard about the Lean Startup movement right. Tendayi Viki, Author.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. ML : Describe David Cancel.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 13, 2021

How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions Abstract by Oleg Shcherba First, Study Your Target Company's Core Values What you will see in common across all the FAANG companies (and most startups) is that they have formally expressed a set of core values that they expect employees to embody. See our expert answer to this question here.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? Or ‘let me teach you how to start a startup’.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 6, 2020

He also an active blogger, and frequent speaker at industry events about startups, SaaS, and cloud computing. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? I saw that at an actual conference. Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Upcoming Events.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Michael leads product and design at Medium, which he joined when it acquired his startup Talkshow Industries.

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