#FirstPrinciples Ep06 with Ravi Mehta

Making Great Product Decisions

Great products are the result of great *decisions* — decisions that deliver value for customers and the business. Product managers make decisions using some combination of three inputs: 1) intuition, 2) analytics, and 3) research. The best products get made when decisions are informed by those three inputs in a balanced way.

However, striking this balance is extremely difficult. Individuals, teams, and companies almost always bias towards a particular mode of decision-making. This bias blinds companies to the true nature of the market and opens them up to disruption.

In this talk, Ravi discussed the three inputs into product decision making, the benefits and risks of each input, and how to make better product decisions that ultimately drive better results.

About Ravi:
Ravi is a consumer tech leader who has scaled products that have impacted millions of people and scaled teams to meet the challenge.

In his previous role, he was the Chief Product Officer at Tinder. He has also led products at Facebook, Tripadvisor and Microsoft (Xbox).

He will be sharing his journey and will talk about the three pillars behind making product decisions with examples from companies like Apple, Snapchat, Airbnb, Facebook and OkCupid.

[danariev]

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