Navindra Kewal is an explorer of all things digital and physical. We both are from the same graduating class at CUNY - City College and he’s a former entrepreneur, co-founding a hardware startup called Ekick Technologies which aimed to keep skateboarders safer at night. Currently, he’s a Product Management Fellow at the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. His current project under the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity is https://working.nyc.gov/. When he’s not doing that, he’s either hiking or working as a Product Manager at Lens: Snap & Share a photo-taking app for which he is a co-founder.

In this episode we talked about…

1. Why did you get into product management and product marketing?

2. What's one of the main challenges of working in your field? Why would developing products for the public sector be a difficult endeavor?

3. What is product-market fit and how does a business know if they have achieved it? What metrics and tools do you use to measure this?

4. What are the core skills you currently have that you consider to be your main strengths? How would you relearn them in a faster way—knowing what you know now?

5. What's one prediction you have about 2021 that you think no one else cares about but—they should?

And more!

Connect with Navindra via LinkedIn or his website.

The three product management books he mentioned:

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

How the World's Hottest Innovation Factory Builds Bold Ideas That Make It to Market How to Kill a Unicorn by Mark Payne

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career) by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro