A Sunday Conversation with Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer at Microsoft

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🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Panos Panay is the Chief Product Officer at Microsoft and the "father" of the Microsoft Surface line of products. He's also a father of four with a high-pressure career and hardly enough time for both. I sat down with him at a recent Microsoft Surface launch event where we discussed his work-life balance, the creative process, how he copes with his long hours, and some traditional Sunday Scaries questions that you've probably heard me ask before. * * * Sign up for product drops: www.sunday-scaries.com Sunday Scaries Twitter: www.twitter.com/sundayscaries Sunday Scaries Instagram: www.instagram.com/sunday.scaries Will deFries Twitter: www.twitter.com/willdefries Will deFries Instagram: www.instagram.com/willdefries * * * All music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Podcast artwork by Alfonso Ruiz (www.alfonsoruizbook.com) and Tristan Pigott (www.tristanpigott.com)

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0:00.0	My name is Will DeFrees, and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast.
0:05.5	You are here for the Sunday Blues.
0:10.7	A couple weeks ago, I spent the majority of my week in a city that I have a love-hate
0:23.6	relationship with, New York.
0:26.7	While absolutely love taking walks through Central Park and eating all the bagels they
0:30.0	have to offer, I also have a slight distaste for the city's solely based on how expensive
0:34.5	and busy everything can get.
0:36.3	But that particular week, I was there for reasons relating to both business and pleasure,
0:41.0	mainly to interview the Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, Pano's Penay.
0:46.4	He's also popularly known as the Father of the Microsoft Surface Brand.
0:50.2	A line of products I've become increasingly familiar with since receiving my first Surface
0:54.4	Book 2.
0:56.0	What transpired was this surprisingly candid conversation that I think we both truly enjoyed.
1:01.5	In our short time together, we discussed the creative process, his work life balance,
1:05.5	and several other topics that skewed from both serious to his new affinity for country
1:09.7	music and Lulu Lemon.
1:11.4	I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
1:15.4	Pano's, is it fair to say that you have a high-pressure job?
1:23.1	Yeah, it's super fair to say that.
1:26.3	I think we have amazing jobs.
1:31.1	With the ability to create products or lead and be part of a great team, I think the
1:39.0	expectations of what we're shipping pressure, a lot of pressure comes with that internally
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