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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. I started my career as a software engineer. When I say product team, I mean product managers, designers, software engineers. Teresa Torres: I chuckled a little bit there because I gave a conference talk in 2016 in Lisbon. Does that work together?

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Why you Should Invest in Relationships With Your Engineering Team

Mind the Product

Include Engineers in Product Decisions. They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. In my experience, engineers should be involved in the product thinking process. Foremost you want to openly preach the product vision.

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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

Late last year, I spoke at the Predict Conference on how we built Resolution Bot, our intelligent support chatbot that can instantly resolve common questions. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Resolution Bot is just the start of our vision for this space.

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Can AI Create a Fairer World? By Kriti Sharma

Mind the Product

For example, there are well-documented examples of facial recognition software failing more regularly for dark-skinned people, and this happens because the software is typically trained on the faces of its software engineers. The Opportunity Before us.

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What is Product Management in Tech: Guide to the Role Of A Technical PM

Userpilot

To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. This vision outlines the long-term goals and impact the product aims to achieve.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.