Make sure you go somewhere where you have a good engineering partner because if you have great ideas of what to build but you can't get them built, then you go nowhere.

So that has to be part of your evaluation criteria that you meet and value your engineering partner before you join.

And then I think what's really important is that you're aligned.

You understand your roles and responsibilities and where you're going to divide and

conquer and where you're going to be aligned. You don't want any of this like people in

the organization they ask mom they ask dad and they got different opinions and

playing one against the other, like that hasn't worked.

Today my guest is Tamar Yajoshaa.

Tamar is currently president of product and technology at Glean, one of the most successful Enterprise AI companies

Athar right now, prior to joining Glean tomorrow was Chief Product Officer at Slack for four

years where she led product, design, and research as the company scaled, 10X the revenue, went

through IPO and then got bought by Salesforce. Tamar also led product and engineering teams

at Google, where for many years she was responsible for the Google search experience.

She also spent five years at Amazon as Director of Engineering and Vice President at A9.com.

She was also a venture partner at IVP and has been on board of directors for Service Now, Sneak, Retail Me Not,

Yex. In our conversation, we get into all kinds of juicy advice, including why companies don't have to be run well to win, why you don't need a career plan.

The two habits she credits most for helping her succeed throughout her career.

What she learned from Jeff Bezos and Sturt Butterfield and Mark Benny off,

how to build stronger cross-functional relationships,

and a bunch of advice on AI, including how it will likely change your jobs,

examples of how she and her colleagues are already using AI to be more productive in their work,

and what she's learned about building AI-based products that are non-deterministic and can be very

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