Sanchan Saxena
Sanchan Saxena is VP of Product at Coinbase. Before Coinbase, Sanchan was Head of Product and GM at Airbnb, founder and Head of Product of Instagram Shopping, Director of Product Management at Yahoo, and Lead PM at Microsoft.
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Career (separate track) Skills
Prioritize rapid learning and high-energy opportunities over rigid long-term career planning to navigate early product management choices.
"My biggest advice to people is, oftentimes the analysis paralysis of dotting every eye, crossing every tee sometimes chokes you out of opportunities. When you find something that gives you energy, jus..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
Avoid over-reliance on purely scientific methods to prevent missing out on far-fetched or nascent product opportunities that require intuition.
"If you become too scientific, you miss out on opportunities because you can't see those opportunities using the scientific method of discovery, because they're too tiny or they're so farfetched that p..."