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It's important to show humility and empathy during an interview as it provides the interviewer with valuable insights into the product's development stages and its future, all while showcasing your perspectives.

Thanks a ton Nik for sharing such a detailed & insightful perspective on the 30 second & 2 min version! Super helpful for not only preparing for interviews externally but also internal connects with new folks in my company!

This is a great addition! I love the idea of different versions for different settings. I usually advise a different type for exec recruiters and VC talent partners who screen on specific things and can tell your story better than you. Then a different for talking to a mission driven founder or peer leader. And another based on a target company to highlight more or less of their stage, need, or value. I do find the 3 career phases approach works well for most to avoid going too deep and lets you name and number drop while still sounding like a human telling a story. This is great!

Thank you for sharing these invaluable insights! Your detailed approach provides a clear framework for introducing oneself effectively under 30 seconds and steering conversations to your core strengths. The level of thought and effort you’ve put into this is truly commendable, those real time examples are really helpful. I’m deeply grateful for your hard work, and I’d love to know how I can contribute or support you in any way going forward. Thanks again :)

Very insightful. This resonates with my experience and I recognize the "shadows" in many people I have worked with and for.

Nice video. pls continue making such videos.

The founder mode calling out the leader to be on the weeds, doesn't mean that it weeding the whole forest. But the ability to be in the details on demand.

Thank you for making this!

Really insightful advice!

Thank you for explaining the difference between reputation & brand building and for the the actionable advice for improving both of these Nikhyl

Appreciate the acknowledgement of brand building nuances for female PMs.

i am eng, i found this very useful, eng is kind of similar.

You really explained the 4 stages of the company very well and the problems at each stage. However would be great if you could double click on the last part. ie how to know which stage is right for you. Thanks

Extremely valuable podcast!

Love this! How would you classify a scaled company going through an expansion? So we have PMF with our flagship product (mostly sucking sound, although getting slower), and we are investing in some zero to one areas that are doing the zig zag. So we have established processes, but many times, this doesn't make sense for the new products- so we haven't hit our stride with anything. We also have a large modernization initiative going on to get a platform that can support our existing customers + expansion. All this makes for a super chaotic and disorganized very large organization. Thinking about where I fit, I enjoy the ambiguity of a smaller startup and can work well within the structure of a larger org, but this is the worst of both worlds right now.

This episode offers a great perspective & framework on how to evaluate potential opportunities & how to position yourself. It would be great if you could give your take on the the relationship between funding round & stage of company. E.g., I'd assume almost all seed round companies are pre-P/M fit and most series A would be the same. But at what round do we see product-market fit start to materialize? And generally at which funding round would we start to see hypergrowth?

Love it! Super insightful with great perspectives!

This is such a unique podcast. Keep it coming Nikhyl

Thank you, Julie, for the influencer question! I had this same thought, and it resonated with me. It's not something I enjoy, and I was apprehensive I needed to go down that road to set myself up for a director-level role (or any senior-level role).

Hi Nikhil, Thanks for sharing another thoughtful episode. I have been benefiting immensely from your wisdom and am wondering if, apart from sharing it with friends and colleagues, I can help you as a volunteer in any capacity with my experience in operations and community engagements?

These are very astute and actionable insights to help develop a healthy mindset and routine during job transition!

Is Elon a Wartime leader? Surely yes but he manages to lead the innovation

Dude you gotta learn how to pronounce Indian names properly or at least make an attempt to do so. Seriously, a third of the tech leaders have Sanskrit origin names like Nikhil or Sundar… least you can do is learn how to pronounce them, these are just 2 syllables mate

Dude you gotta learn how to pronounce Indian names properly or at least make an attempt to do so. Seriously, a third of the tech leaders have Sanskrit origin names like Nikhil or Sundar… least you can do is learn how to pronounce them, these are just 2 syllables mate

This content is right on time and hitting home. Thanks, Nikhyl!

Hi Nikhyl, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your advice. It’s some of the best I found in years. Your past experiences and your understanding of human psychology sets it apart. Thank you again!

this is brilliant!! thank you!!! I've been struggling as a Jr PM when I was moved to a PM role that was open. I am very aware of my lack of technical/domain expertise but I'm good at design and couldn't figure out what was not clicking, leadership is also very uptight and anxious since we have a working product that needs to scale. Seems I'm a crafter and a bit of growth PM. I can clearly identify my coworker who is an engineer with domain expertise turned PM and he adds so much value.

Long time listener, first-time caller. I enjoy your podcast, but this episode is difficult to listen to because of the number of voice-over edits. It's like someone else's voice They audibly sound different from the rest of your spoken words and it takes me out of the stream of thoughts. It makes it hard to follow along. I had to stop and hunt down a place to send this feedback. I listen on Spotify so with audio-only it really stands out. I'm going to give it another try because I really wanted to hear the message.

Just what I needed. Thank you, Nikhyl.

Very great insight! I just curious do you think this guy is coachable? Not everybody is Jobs and Jobs is always right because he gets it right by letting others convincing him. This guy actually is not that smart as he thought. Maybe he needs some real failure to accept your advice, you cannot get everything without trade-off. What do you think?

Also Nikhyl, Id love to volunteer/pay to be one of thhe case studies you mentioned earlier in the episode!

Were so back

This is arguably the best podcast ever! ❤🎉

Thanks for this episode, Nikhyl! This helps. I'm now at the end of a six-months pause as PM, and getting back to the job market looks daunting in the middle of a third wave of layoffs. It think your content helps to differentiate my profile and keep growing. Take care!

Your insight is always helpful, thanks Nikhyl!

I always appreciate your sage advice Nikhyl! One question I have relates to the timeline of the career story. You spoke about an individual project at one company, while a career spans many companies and projects. Is there a specific reason for this?

Love this one on being a founder mindset

So many Evans in the government

Power giving super power oof @me

Very helpful insights!

This is really helpful. Realized a few parts of the framework after working for 7 years in the industry. Question - What's your thought process of coming up with such frameworks? Which questions are worth creating/thinking about a framework? Thank you so much, Nikhyl. Huge fan of your work.

Good one, I just discovered that I am a domain and change management expert.

I regularly listen to this episode maybe at least once in two months. I have identified and found so many of my overshadows and I am seriously working through them. I really appreciate this time and episode.

You are awesome

great episode, thank you!

This is awesome! The best episode so far!!!

This shadow concept opened my eyes to develop the coaching in my team. So interesting!

Thank you for running this podcast! I'm a platform partnerships manager and the advice resonates with folks across functions in tech, not just PM.

Hello, can you recommend a podcast similar to this for career advice for product designers?

Thanks Nikhyl for such a wonderful set of recommendation, I can certainly vouch for Lenny's Podcast being one the best learning avenues for me. Additionally its was very helpful for me as I am working towards building my board of directors.