The Secrets Behind Great Products at The Biggest Companies

Product management expert Shreyas Doshi dives deep into the connection between building a solid team and building a better product, the three levels of product work, the origins of conflict on your team, the difference between measurement and evaluation, the benefits and drawbacks of a writing culture, decision making, growing your competence, the agency/talent matrix, and so much more.

Doshi is best known as the leader of some of the most successful products from Stripe, where he was one of the company’s first product managers. He also led and grew several products at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. He currently advises fast-growing startups on strategy, scaling, and product management. Doshi is also a frequent angel investor and has privately coached product managers from Amazon, Meta, Salesforce, Uber, and LinkedIn.

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00:00 - Intro
00:54 - The 3 levels of product management
11:19 - Evaluating vs. measuring progress
26:24 - On the lessons learned at Stripe
34:45 - How to break a tie in product decisions
38:14 - The difference between good teams and great teams
45:15 - The Agency-Talent Matrix
52:35 - The pros and cons of a writing culture
01:04:44 - The Antithesis Principle (A life-changing idea)
01:14:38 - On opportunity costs
01:21:04 - How to be more confident
01:27:50 - What is success for Shreyas Doshi?
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[samuelkimanisikuku]

This is great! thank you 💚!! here are books on Shreyas's shelf:
1. Inspired - Marty Cagan
2. 7 habits of highly effective people- Stephen E. Covey
3. The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
4. Sum Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
5. Autobiography of a Restless Mind - Dee Hock
6. The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli
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8. Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
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10. Awareness - Anthony De Mello
11. Healing back pain - John E.Sarno MD

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[rollierollout]

This is so valuable! I'm working through some of the exact scenarios that Shreyas Doshi described and his advice has given me so much clarity about this situation! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[MiguelFernando]

I need to know what prompt you used to make the headshot in that thumbnail picture :)

[jawakar]

This is Gold
Thanks for this insightful podcast!

[vipinvijayan]

I still dont understand why product managers are such important position