How Twitter, Instagram, and Planet Build Products — With Kevin Weil

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Weil is the ex-head of product at Twitter and Instagram. He's currently the president of business and product at Planet. Weil joins Big Technology Podcast to share an insider's view of how Twitter and Instagram build products, what their potential is, and how each product is dealing with big, imposing, outside forces (Elon Musk and TikTok). Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss Planet, a fascinating company whose hundreds of satellites orbiting the earth capture a new, complete picture of our world daily.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:05.1	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:08.1	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:10.1	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:11.7	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:20.1	LinkedIn Presents Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool edit, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:51.1	And man, am I excited about our guests today. I've been trying to book him for a while.
0:54.1	We finally have him here in studio or in virtual studio. Kevin Wheels are guest today. He is a person
1:00.3	who's had an unbelievable look into the way that companies like Facebook and Twitter build products.
1:07.1	And he's also at a very interesting company called Planet, which we will talk about in a moment.
1:13.1	At Planet, he is the president of product and business.
1:16.3	He was formerly the SVP of Product at Twitter, VP of Product at Instagram, also helped Facebook with their crypto efforts.
1:23.3	I don't need to say much more.
1:24.5	We're going to get right into it.
1:25.4	Kevin, welcome to the show.
1:27.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:28.8	Great to have you here.
1:29.9	You know, I've been following your career for a long time, you know, from the early days as a
1:33.9	be a reporter at BuzzFeed covering Twitter where you were running product.
1:38.3	And we've had some good conversations over the year, but we've never done anything like
1:41.4	this. And I'm like very excited to get into
1:44.3	what you've seen and your perspective on the tech world. Yeah, I was excited that you asked me.
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