20 Product: Shreyas Doshi on The Three Different Types of Product Leaders and How To Hire Them, The 6 Different Product Metrics You Need To Know and What Good is For Each of Them & Table Stakes Features vs Wow Features; What To Prioritise
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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Shreyas Doshi is an investor, advisor, and all-around product OG. Most recently Shreyas spent over 5 years at Stripe where he was Stripe's first PM Manager and helped define and grow the Product Management function (from ~5 to more than 50 people). Before Stripe, Shreyas was a Director of Product Management @ Twitter and prior to Twitter spent over 6 years as a Group Product Manager @ Google. Today Shreyas has invested and advises some of the best including advising Airtable, Kalshi, Lendflow, to name a few.
In Today's Episode with Shreyas Doshi:
1.) Entry into Product:
- How did Shreyas make his way into the world of product and product management?
- Why did Shreyas decide not to do business school when it was the conventional route for everyone going into product management?
- What were some of Shreyas' biggest takeaways from his time at Stripe and Google? How did they impact his product mind today?
2.) Product Management 101:
- How does Shreyas define product management today? How do many confuse it?
- How does Shreyas define product success today? What is the single biggest mistake Shreyas sees founders make when determining the success/PMF of their product?
- Does Shreyas believe that great product management is science or art? Data or intuition? When should you listen to customers? When should you not?
3.) Metrics 101 & How To Use Them:
- What is the single biggest mistake Shreyas sees founders make when it comes to selecting their North Star metric?
- How should founders think about input vs output metrics? What is the difference between the two?
- What are the 6 types of metrics that all founders and product teams need to focus on? How does their importance change over time?
- How should the responsibility for these metrics be split between different people and teams?
4.) Three Types of Product Leader:
- What are the three different types of product leaders?
- The Craftsperson: What is their core strength? What is their core weakness? How do they interact with the rest of the team and company?
- The Operator: What is their core strength? What is their core weakness? How do they interact with the rest of the team and company?
- The Visionary: What is their core strength? What is their core weakness? How do they interact with the rest of the team and company?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to 20 Product with me, Harry Stebbings. |
| 0:02.5 | Now 20 Product is the monthly show where we interview the world's leading product minds |
| 0:06.3 | to reveal their tips, lessons and strategies to scaling the best product teams. |
| 0:10.7 | And I'm so excited for the show today. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm one of the biggest fans of this guest on Twitter. |
| 0:15.2 | Their threads on all things product are legendary. |
| 0:17.4 | And if you haven't checked them out, then it really is a must. With that, I'm so delighted to welcome Shraeas Doshi, investor, advisor and all-round product O.G. |
| 0:24.9 | Most recently, Shreas spent over five years at Stripe, where he was Stripe's first PM manager |
| 0:29.6 | and helped define and grow the product management function from five to more than 50 people. |
| 0:34.7 | Before Stripe, Shraeus was the director of product management at Twitter, |
| 0:37.8 | and prior to Twitter, he spent over six years as a group product manager at Google. |
| 0:41.6 | Today, Shraeas has invested in and advises some of the best, including airtable, Kalshi, lendflow, to name a few. |
| 0:48.8 | But before we dive into the show today, you have to check out builder.a.i. |
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