Shreyas Doshi
Shreyas Doshi is a treasure trove of knowledge and tactical insights on product, strategy, psychology, leadership, and life. Over the course of his career, he’s PM’d at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and Stripe, where he joined as its fourth product manager, later becoming Stripe’s first PM manager and helping define and grow its product management function (from ~5 to more than 50 people). Since leaving Stripe, Shreyas has amassed a huge Twitter following in large part thanks to consistent sharing of high-quality insights on the art of product management.
Career (separate track) Skills
An engineering background provides a powerful foundation for product management by allowing you to both identify user needs and build solutions yourself.
"For about a year, I was doing the product job without having the title and I was also the engineer. So I was in this great state where I'd figure out what needed to be built and I would just build it..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
High-performing cultures distinguish themselves by making large-scale thinking a default operating habit that prevents teams from setting artificial limits on their success.
"Google, I think the main thing I learned was the power of thinking really big. And I know it sounds like a platitude, but really big. And I only actually realized that when I left Google and I started..."