you know, one of my personal challenges in my own kind of journey and growth as a leader

was it was easy for me to judge other individuals or other teams saying like oh these people

are only focused on optics whereas I am focused on impact and execution which are the right things

to be focused on and when you start with that sort of feeling it doesn't create or make any room

for true collaboration welcome to the knowledge project a podcast about mastering the best

what other people have already figured out so you can apply their insights to your life

I'm your host Shane Parish if you're listening to this you're missing it if you'd like access

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slash membership check out the show notes for a link today my guest is Shreya Stoshin he's

led and scaled products at companies like Stripe Twitter and Google and an early member of the

product team at Stripe he led some of the companies largest and fastest growing business lines

even establishing product manager as a function there today he's an advisor I wanted to talk to

Shreya's because I often find when reading his work that we have similar ideas but we approach

them and come at them very differently in this episode we discuss the three levels of product work

and where conflict comes from the difference between evaluating and measuring something

what he's learned working at Stripe that he still uses today the benefits and drawbacks of a

writing culture what he's learned about decision making that most people miss how you can systematically

grow your confidence the role of opportunity cost the antithesis principle the agency talent matrix

and so much more it's time to listen and learn

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