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Masayoshi Son: AI’s ‘superhuman effort’ will dwarf past tech revolutions
Masayoshi Son discusses the profound impact of artificial intelligence, asserting that its development should be accelerated rather than slowed down.
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Atlassian CEO: the ‘brainless bet’ of neglecting design in the AI era
Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar argues that neglecting user experience and design in the AI era is a "brainless bet" for companies.
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Pat Gelsinger: AI’s ‘headwind’ is not chips, but energy capacity
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger explains why the memory industry was historically a "terrible industry" and how AI has transformed its value.
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How Zerodha optimizes its 20TB of data?
On peak traffic, despite having a heavy "hot" cache layer, the warehouse DB serves up to 40-50,000 queries per second. Instead of normalizing their data, they denormalized it because JOINs across tables…
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Your product is a joke (and that's brilliant!)
The rules that help make good improv comedy can surprisingly help make good product too. Let's run through interesting parallels between the two, and how you can apply some lessons from improv…
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The Black Box Inventor Was Told to Drop the Idea
Warren was studying for his amateur radio license when a World War II ban on hobby radio forced him to redirect his efforts to chemistry sets.But when Warren gave his supervisor Technical…
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.“Our general philosophy is to go crazy with permutations,” he says. “If the taste is there, which you can grow by studying typography and…
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The Razor’s Edge of Product Development
The Razor’s Edge of Product Development (a thread in 7 parts👇) Focus on the competition, and you won’t take the risks necessary to make it big. Ignore the competition, and you’ll miss…
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Whatfix founder, Khadim on Finding Product Market Fit and Building a Global SAAS Business from India.
Whatfix cofounder and CEO, Khadim shares the product-market-fit journey of WhatFix and how the company went about scaling globally. Catch The Ashish Sinha show on your fav podcast app: Spotify | Google…
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“Ignore your competitors, but don’t ignore their customers.”: Twitch Founder, Emmett Shear’s Golden Growth Lessons
There are only five growth strategies that exist, and your product probably only fits one. Press isn’t a growth strategy, and neither is word of mouth. The five growth strategies are high-touch…
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How do I Create Effective Product Roadmaps: Announcing SEEK Group Mentoring Session by Ujjwal Trivedi, Senior Director, Product Management
Group mentoring sessions are opposite of webinars. The sessions allow limited audience, are interactive and we expect you to BYOQ, i.e. Bring Your Own Questions.
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How much of tech should a product manager really know ?
Imagine this. You are a Mexican chef and you have now joined a South Indian restaurant. Will you survive? Will you be able to thrive in the new company? On the same…
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Hiring great talent in this crazy funding spree: Conversation with Amiya Pathak.
Hiring has become tougher these days. the quality talent is witnessing lucrative offers and the average stay in the company has gone to an abysmal low. How can one hire and retain…