Join Rakesh as he interviews people from various domains of expertise. He dives in with deep informal conversations about their unique experiences, tactics, strategies implemented, learnings from failures, and optimized systems and processes that eventually made them who they are. Topics primarily deal with tech, venture, startups & entrepreneurship, product, and everyday life.
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Capturing opportunities & Embracing Risk - Amal Muzaffar, PM at Facebook AI, Ex-PM at WeWork, American Express, UofM Alum
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28:28About Amal: Amal is a Product Manager at Facebook, where she specializes in the AI behind Instagram Reels. She talks about her journey into product. During her undegrad, PM was not as popular as it was today, so she had to make use of opportunities in front of her. Furthermore, she stresses embracing such opportunities even though they give a short…
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Don't worry too much about the destination, focus on the journey - Mahek Hooda, Product Manager - Microsoft
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22:19About Mahek: Mahek Hooda is a Product Manager at Microsoft. She started her career in the supply chain but constantly focused on the end goal of moving to product. She showed persistence in face of rejections but kept moving forward - embracing her uniqueness and leveraging her skillset. Hear her story, it is truly inspiring. She talks about: How t…
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Embrace risk and experiment - PM is a unique journey, Varun Perla - Ex Swiggy PM, IIIT, Upenn (Ivy League)
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44:39Varun Perla is a current MS student at UPenn. He previously worked at Swiggy as PM, IIIT as an ML Research Intern, and graduated with a bachelor's from BITS-Pilani. He talks about: Business models affected with COVID, his expectations on what to expect once the vaccine hits. The difference between a PM at a 10 person team and a 50+ person team The …
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How to incorporate the principles of PM in your job search. AWS Senior PM - Srini Sekaran
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23:55Srini Sekaran is a senior product manager at Amazon. He talks about: How to incorporate PM principles into your job search How to embrace your unique journey when reaching out to recruiters How to differentiate yourself from the other job applicants Precious advice on students seeking to break into PM His achievements: Machine learning at NASA Ames…
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