Ep. 121, From 600 Meatballs to Product Management

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Episode #121 of Underserved features Dmitry Grenader. Dmitry left the Soviet Union with his family and landed in Brooklyn. He worked his way up from odd jobs to a master's degree and became a software developer. A mentor saw promise in Dmitry's product management skills and encouraged him to lean in that direction. This has led Dmitry to a decades-long successful career in the Boston software industry. We discuss CES fame, writing a song to lobby for resources, and selling software to low-tech industries.

Links:

Boston University Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP) - https://www.bu.edu/eng/admissions/graduate/leap/
Lionbridge - https://www.lionbridge.com/
Sermo - https://www.sermo.com/
Vlingo, now part of Nuance - https://www.nuance.com/index.html
NetProspex, now part of Dun & Bradstreet - https://www.dnb.com/
Luminoso - https://luminoso.com/
Newmetrix, now part of Oracle - https://www.oracle.com/construction-engineering/construction-intelligence-cloud/#rc30p4
Marc Andressen "The only thing that matters" - https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html
Rob Snyder coaches startup on product-market fit - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsnyder1/
Amwell - https://business.amwell.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to episode number 121 of underserved.
0:04.8	Joining me today is Dimitri Grenadier, a Boston area product management leader.
0:10.4	Let's get started.
0:12.1	Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,
0:19.5	where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.
0:25.9	And now, your host, Andrew Jolina.
0:32.5	Dmitri, thank you for joining us today on underserved.
0:35.7	Thank you so much, Andrew, for having me.
0:37.7	Underserved.
0:38.2	I thought it was called Undeserved, and that's why I'm here.
0:41.7	Well, we do have the underserved, undeserved product awards,
0:45.5	which we sometimes give out to the products and gadgets that we like.
0:49.2	So you grew up in Russia way back when it was the Soviet Union.
0:53.1	What was that like?
1:11.8	Well, that's true. I guess, yeah, I'm older than I look. I did grow up in the Soviet Union, country that doesn't exist anymore. I grew up in St. Petersburg, was Leningrad back then. I guess it started out as St. Petersburg and then it was Petersburg and then it was Petrograd, and it was Leningeningrad and then was renamed back to St. Petersburg. I don't know if you knew that. I did not know that.
1:15.7	Well, there you go. There's a first lesson for everybody. If you don't know what to do with your
1:19.3	product, just rename it a bunch of times. And did you go to university there? That's right. I went
1:26.5	to a technical university.
1:28.3	I'll say it in Russian just for fun.
1:30.2	Leningradzky Institute, Tocenegrin, Gertzsche Institute, Tocene, Mechanics, and Optics.
1:36.7	And I studied spectral optics, laser optics, holography, lots of optics.
1:42.9	Fourier transforms, lots of theoretical things. The Soviets were good
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