Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more

sometimes wonder how someone like Gokul Raj Ram can exist. He has an intense full time job at DoorDash, where he leads a significant part of the product and business. He also served as a board member, The trade desk, Coinbase, and Pinterest, all public companies. He's also a prolific investor and is seemingly on the cap table of every successful startup that I come across, and at the same time He's one of the most humble and nicest people you'll ever meet. If you look him up, you'll notice

He always calls himself a startup helper, and I know that he makes a lot of time to mentor and help a lot of founders. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation. Including picking where to work. how to do product development startups, structuring your product teams, hiring and angel investing. I hope that you enjoy our chat. This episode is brought to you by Amplitude, the number one product analytics solution. Amplitude helps product teams, growth teams, marketing and data teams, build winning products faster, and turn products into revenue. Amplitude has everything you need, including an integrated CDP, self-service analytics.

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