Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Weil is the VP of Product for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system. Previously, Weil was VP of Product at Instagram (overseeing consumer, growth, and monetization products) and SVP of Product at Twitter (where he led product development and design across Twitter’s consumer and ad products, as well as Vine and Periscope). In this talk, he explores the mission that drives both Libra and Novi, and shares a number of crucial insights on digital product design.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is Thought Leaders Revisited, a special summer
0:09.5	2020 edition of our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. During this summer of uncertainty,
0:16.0	we're inviting some of the most influential past ETL speakers to join us for a series of new conversations
0:22.3	about innovation, leadership, and especially finding opportunities in the midst of a crisis.
0:29.1	On this episode, we're joined by Kevin Weill. Kevin is the VP of product from Novi, a new digital
0:35.5	wallet for Facebook's Libra currency.
0:38.3	Welcome, Kevin.
0:40.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:41.3	Oh my goodness, this is so fun.
0:43.3	It has been such a fabulous treat to watch your career progress.
0:47.3	I've known you, I believe, since you were a graduate student, and it's been so impressive to see your meteoric rise and also to see how much
0:55.8	you've learned along the way. So thank you for coming, joining. Thank you. And you've been a
1:01.2	mentor the whole way. Well, it's been such a treat. So what we're going to do today is, as in our other
1:06.8	summer series sessions, we're going to go back and play some clips from your talk a few
1:12.4	years ago and then reflect on them. You were certainly in a very different role in different
1:16.3	position then and see how your ideas have changed. So you have a lot of experience working on
1:22.3	different teams, tackling things that are really challenging from Twitter to Instagram to Libra at Facebook.
1:29.5	Clearly, you figured out how to get a team aligned around a mission.
1:34.1	So let's watch this short clip about how you do this, and then let's talk about how this relates to what you're doing now.
1:40.1	So let's play the first clip.
1:41.8	You should be able to go around to your company as it scales and ask anybody,
1:45.2	what are the three most important things we're working on?
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