The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

You worked at so many great companies at YouTube when you joined, my understanding is YouTube was losing a lot of money. There were many times where Google leadership reconsidered the acquisition and should we like sell YouTube, if you can believe it or not. At thumbtack, it looks like you went from one to negative one and then back to one. I remember in a board meeting the new model really started show legs and one of the board members, Brian Schreyer at Sequoia, said it was the prettiest smile graph that he had ever seen. When you were at Facebook, you built what is called the new product experimentation team trying to create a startup within a startup. You're thinking on a different time horizon. If you're a large organization and you do some performance management process twice a year. In your zero to one incubator, you've already killed it. It's the wrong incentive. As the chief product officer Grammarly, I'm curious what word you most often misspell. Ha ha ha. The

T E D E H Today my guest is Noam Levinsky. Noam is currently chief product officer at Ramalie. Previously he was an early PM at YouTube, where he spent five years leading the creator product experience, and then the broader YouTube consumer product experience. He then went on to take on the chief product officer role at ThumbTech, which involved helping the company reignite growth. After a downturn caused by some changes Google made in SEO.

He then went on to Facebook, where he created the new product experimentation team, whose charter was to incubate big new ideas protected from the larger Facebook org. Noum has such a unique set of experiences, taking products from zero to one. From negative one to one. From one to a hundred. And even starting his own companies.

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