On picking the next company to join
Over the past 10 years, I’ve had more than 500 chats with talented tech folks about their job change decisions: should I leave my well-paid FAMG job? should I join Stripe, Facebook or Airbnb? how to evaluate this offer? etc
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) July 2, 2021
A thread with 8 ideas I’ve often shared in these chats:
On evaluating the caliber of people before joining a company
How can you evaluate the caliber of people at a company before joining it?
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) July 3, 2021
Here are 10 tips:
Why firefighting is the default operating mode in many companies
Why are some teams constantly firefighting?
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) July 11, 2021
4 common causes
1) Infra: unreliable, insecure, slow
2) Execs: asking for new / different / contradictory things
3) Interpersonal: petty drama between people & teams
4) Habits: managers conditioned to think firefighting is the job
Important for megacorp employees to understand, if they plan to further grow their career outside of megacorps
A tragedy with most megacorps is that they program their talented & ambitious product people to conflate what it takes to get promoted with what it takes to create actual customer value. pic.twitter.com/SyS0FJP43r
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) July 27, 2021
A thread that captures some high value lessons that took me a very long time to learn
A thread with 7 high value ideas & habits that took me more than a decade of my career (and dozens of costly mistakes) to learn:
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) August 16, 2021
Understand the 4 Types of Product-Market fit
Product-Market fit is often viewed as a static concept: either you have it or you don’t.
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) August 14, 2021
In my experience, it is better to think of fit as a dynamic state based on your progress towards your vision & know what fit you currently have.
Check out the 4 Types of Product-Market fit: pic.twitter.com/TARAJGmJvd
Execution, Strategy, Market – each of them plays a role in a product's success. A thread that provides a simple heuristic to better understand this and explain it to others on your team:
A brief thread on
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) August 22, 2021
Impact = (Execution ^ Strategy) × Market
for product people:
Must-read books for product leaders
If you lead teams that are directly involved in conceiving, building & launching products (i.e. product mgmt, engineering, design, user research, data science, product ops, product mktg, ...), this thread is for you.
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) August 27, 2021
Top 5 must-read books for product leaders:
A story that tends to repeat over & over, even within the smartest companies in tech. See if you can spot all the mistakes made by the characters in this thread (hint: there are several dozen) and who is most culpable (hint: it isn't the PM or the Eng Mgr)
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly.
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) September 21, 2021
A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
As a founder or product leader, one of your main jobs is to create clarity & alignment. That is why this helps tremendously:
Mission: Why
— Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) November 17, 2021
Vision: What
Strategy: How
Segmentation: Who
Positioning: Where
Roadmap: When
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