Shreyas has worked as a product management leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. He has been a startup advisor to several companies including Airtable and Chainlink and has angel invested in many companies over the last decade. He is currently teaching a course through which he has coached more than 2,000 product managers. Follow Shreyas on X @shreyas and check out his course, "Managing your PM Career in 2024 and beyond": https://maven.com/shreyas-doshi/product-management-career
[0:16] - Shreyas’ transition from PM leader to advisor/coach/teacher
[5:19] - Trading stories on health habits, experiences with back pain
[11:32] - Shreyas’ philosophy on and approach to time management
[17:04] - Why Shreyas decided to create an online course and how he built the #1 course on Maven through a product-first approach
[30:04] - The benefits of writing online, considering when to start
[43:44] - The curse of brilliance
[54:22] - The illusion of luck
[1:00:13] - The power of a stack rank
[1:12:40] - Using mental simulations to make complex decisions
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