Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)

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Something is missing. Welcome to Lenny's Podcast, where I interview world class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard-won experiences building and growing today's most successful products. Today my guest is Shueta Srivostova. Shueta is senior director of product management at Wamo. Which, if you're not familiar with Waymo, they are building self-driving cars that are already alive on the streets in San Francisco, LA, and Phoenix.

I actually got to take a ride in one ahead of this chat, and you'll hear all about that in this episode. Before joining Waymo, Shueta was chief product officer at NALTO and AI startup focusing on driver and automation safety. Before that, she was head of product management at Amazon Web Services for their database and analytics services. And before that, she was at Cisco. In our conversation, we delve into what it's like to work as a PM at Waymo. And how it's both different and similar to software only products. We talk about their KPIs and goals at Waymo, including how they track progress towards a future of self-driving cars, how they build subtle cues and behaviors into the cars to create trust for the rider and also for other cars on the road. Plus Shoita's biggest lessons about building products and teams across the many companies she's worked at. I can't wait for a future of every car being self-driving. And it was super fun to learn about what goes into making this all happen.

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