Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)

My probably most spectacular failure was the first PM1 Hangouts. We had thousands of people working for me. We had entire power of Google. Yeah, Larry literally sitting with us saying we can do anything we want Chrome to do and we still didn't manage to build a great messaging product. The main kind of learnings from that is don't take on projects that are gonna be six months, a year. Because you just generally don't have control over the macro. The challenge with being a product manager is everybody thinks they can do their job. Anybody who uses the product thinks ideas. So at some point in time you're like, what is my discipline? Like what is my science?

The moment you build experimentation, you're now made it scientific. A lot of new people in their career are like, oh I just want to think about strategy. I'm gonna think about the big picture. Strategy is a little bit overrated for product. For most product managers, your strategy should be how fast can I go from hypothesis to data. Today my guest is Major Comet. My is chief product officer at N twenty six. Оних стартапс і на world. And which in my research came in amongst the top five companies in the world who are hiring and producing the best product managers. Prior to N twenty six, my Yure was global head of product at Binance.

VP a product at Agoda, which is over a hundred billion dollar company based in Thailand. and a PM at Google and Microsoft. In our wide ranging conversation, Mayor shares what he's learned about hiring and developing great product managers. What he learned from his time working at Binance, which, as you'll soon hear, was one of the wildest and most unique ways of working. What he learned from the failure of Google's early attempts at hangouts, where he was the first PM.

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