Bangaly Kaba
Bangaly Kaba was an early growth PM at Facebook, head of growth at Instagram, and VP of Product at Instacart and is currently Director of Product at YouTube overseeing a global team working on creator monetization. Bangaly has also been a growth advisor to dozens of companies, including Twitter, on the board of multiple companies, and is an active angel investor.
Career (separate track) Skills
Maximizing career success requires an objective analysis of how your current professional environment either enables or hinders your specific skill set.
"The framework is really that there's impact that you're really trying to drive and that is the thing that is the most important. And the impact is only achievable by looking at two sets of variables,..."
Discovery & Research Skills
True product de-risking requires starting from first principles to understand the core problem before looking for data to justify a specific solution.
"Someone says, 'Hey, you know what? This would be great to build.' And you go pull data to go justify why that would be great to build. Call that identify, justify, execute. First you have to really un..."
Team & Organization Skills
Senior product management impact is defined by the ability to provide strategic clarity and prioritize the right problems rather than simply managing tasks.
"I think for a product manager for example, it's really one, helping to drive extreme clarity about where the problems with the product, where there's opportunities and what is the right focus and prio..."
Organizational change only occurs when five critical elements—vision, skills, incentives, resources, and an action plan—are aligned and present.
"I found this framework travels with me. It's got these five components to it, vision, skills, incentives, resources, action plan, and you need all of those to have change. And then within those bucket..."