The Product.Live

Kicking off the BookClubبالعربي series where I host various guests to present a thorough discussion analyzing some of the most popular product management and business books in the market with a localized flavor more relevant to the Middle Eastern market and try to the best of our abilities to transfer the book knowledge The first book featured in this series is “Build” by Tony Fadell, this book is a guide on how to build anything and it works whatever your goals are , it teaches you how you build yourself to the best version possible. Then Building the right career for you then building products , Building your business, building your team up the moment in career where you need to learn about Being a CEO Tony is a leader in the product building world from General Magic to Philips to Apple to Nest to Google he worked on products like that you all know like the iPod, iPhone and Nest نبدأ سلسلة BookClubبالعربي حيث أستضيف العديد من الضيوف لتقديم مناقشة مستفيضة لتحليل بعض أشهر كتب إدارة المنتجات والأعمال في السوق بنكهة محلية أكثر صلة بسوق الشرق الأوسط ومحاولة بذل قصارى جهدنا لنقلها معرفة الكتاب أول كتاب ظهر في هذه السلسلة هو "البناء" للكاتب طوني فاضل، هذا الكتاب عبارة عن دليل لكيفية بناء أي شيء وهو يعمل مهما كانت أهدافك، فهو يعلمك كيف تبني نفسك بأفضل نسخة ممكنة. ثم بناء المهنة المناسبة لك، ثم بناء المنتجات، وبناء عملك، وبناء فريقك، حتى اللحظة التي تحتاج فيها إلى التعرف على كيفية كونك رئيسًا تنفيذيًا في حياتك المهنية توني هو رائد في عالم بناء المنتجات من General Magic إلى Philips إلى Apple إلى Nest إلى Google، وقد عمل على منتجات مثل تلك التي تعرفونها جميعًا مثل iPod وiPhone وNest. 00:00 - Introduction 07:27 - Build Yourself 24:24 - Building Your Career 49:47 - Building Your Product 01:02:18 - Building Your Company & Being a CEO Nael Shaker is a product leader with significant experience in product management and operations at early-stage e-commerce startups, he truly enjoys the hustle of the startup world. Having been one of the first product managers and early employees at multiple companies, he has been deeply involved in taking ideas from 0 to 1. Connect with Nael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nael-shaker-8b6040a1/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube: https://youtu.be/ikNO2b8ljt0?si=pmbvjG2djor3MpAn Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omar-h-sallam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live/ #ProductManagement #Product #TheProductLive #Leadership #TechLeadership #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #TechTrends #ProductDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #Agile #Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #ProductDesign #UXDesign #DataAnalytics #AIML #TechStartups #LeadershipDevelopment #ProductStrategy #BusinessInsights #Productivity #TechCommunity #LeadershipTips #CustomerFeedback #ScaleUp #ProductInnovation #StrategicPlanning #EmergingTech

Join Nael Shaker & Omar Sallam as they discuss how product management helps disrupting underserved markets and industries through reflecting on their journeys in two of Egypt’s best and most popular technology startups MaxAB (MaxAB is innovating the wholesale market, providing retailers with one place for on-demand delivery, finance solutions, and other value-added services securing $40M in Pre-Series B) & Kenz (E-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA, raising $3.5M in seed fund)  Key Takeaways: What is the definition of a “disreputable” market Building trust & being truly customer-centric is the most efficient and effective way of a successful disruption Competitive Analysis & Benchmarking  00:00 - Introduction 01:10 - What does “0-1 Product” mean? 02:00 - What does “Disrupting Markets” mean? 04:30 - Challenges for Product Managers/Founders 06:20 - First Steps to Disruption 10:17 - Being Close to Customer in MaxAB’s Culture 14:25 - Disrupting Behaviours by Educating Customers 20:20 - Building Trust to Maximize Adoption  31:35 - Creating a Playbook & Discovering Benchmarks 36:45 - There is Always Space for Customer Delight 41:00 - Don’t Look Down, Take a Look at Other Markets Nael Shaker is a product leader with significant experience in product management and operations at early-stage e-commerce startups, he truly enjoys the hustle of the startup world. Having been one of the first product managers and early employees at multiple companies, he has been deeply involved in taking ideas from 0 to 1.  Connect with Nael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nael-shaker-8b6040a1/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam   Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@theproductlive Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omar-h-sallam Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live/ #ProductManagement #Product #TheProductLive #Leadership #TechLeadership #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #TechTrends #ProductDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #Agile #Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #ProductDesign #UXDesign #DataAnalytics #AIML #TechStartups #LeadershipDevelopment #ProductStrategy #BusinessInsights #Productivity #TechCommunity #LeadershipTips #CustomerFeedback #ScaleUp #ProductInnovation #StrategicPlanning #EmergingTech

Join Reham Elhusseiny & Omar Sallam as they discuss what's beyond the theoretical textbook knowledge of how to kickoff and develop your product management career. This session is conducted in Arabic Reham Elhusseiny is a product manager with 7+ years of experience working in startups across various industries, and a proven track record of solving complicated customer problems. She is eager to use her expertise to assist achieving product-market fit and creating products that customers can't help but keep coming back to. Also, leveraging her experience and knowledge to guide startups on their journey to product market fit. She is currently working on Less than truck product within Amazon Freight EU, owning tour planning and scaling the business in the EU. Connect with Reham on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rehamelhuisseny/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam/ Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theproductlive Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/45rlYYeXtxcZYzF4pNX0by Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live

Join Alba Simon & Omar Sallam as they discuss how a pre-mortem exercise helps teams brainstorm potential reasons an initiative can fail and put mitigation actions in place while there's still time. No matter if you plan by agile sprints or any other methodology, pre-mortems help you plan for delivering the best products for your consumers while boosting team empowerment. Join this session to hear how to incorporate this practice into your product management practices. Alba is a Senior Product Manager at adidas, where she help consumers find the right product for their fitness journey. She started her career as a project manager and as she transitioned into Product, she quickly realized there were many techniques from her project management toolkit that were helping her succeed as a Product Manager. The Pre-Mortem is one of her favourites as it’s not very well-known in the Product World but it’s a game changer.  Connect with Alba on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albamsimon/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam   Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@theproductlive Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omar-h-sallam Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live/ #ProductManagement #Product #TheProductLive #Leadership #TechLeadership #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #TechTrends #ProductDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #Agile #Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #ProductDesign #UXDesign #DataAnalytics #AIandML #TechStartups #LeadershipDevelopment #ProductStrategy #BusinessInsights #Productivity #TechCommunity #LeadershipTips #CustoerFeedback #ScaleUp #ProductInnovation #StrategicPlanning #EmergingTech

Join Yi-Wei Ang & Omar Sallam as they have an open discussion about Yi-Wei's career development story, hwo did he get into product and how did he develop himself and shis skillset as well as mindset reaching to be the CPO of one of the best truly product-led technology companies in the Middle East Yi-Wei is on a mission to build product-led organizations. Product-led organizations are customer obsessed, data-driven, and experimentation-focused organizations that leverage the power of technology to solve problems across the company. Yi-Wei is currently the Chief Product Officer at talabat, the largest Food Delivery and Q-Commerce company in the MENA region. talabat has 4000+ employees and is headquartered in Dubai, with Tech Hubs in Dubai & Cairo. Yi-Wei has lived in Dubai, Singapore, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Beijing, Hong Kong, And Kuala Lumpur. Connect with Yi-Wei on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiweiang/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam/ Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theproductlive Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/45rlYYeXtxcZYzF4pNX0by Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live

Petra Wille, author of 'Strong Product People' & 'Strong Product Communities', discusses building strong product cultures and fixing root cause problems. Topics include preparing for leadership roles, engaging and motivating product teams, cross-functional frameworks, sizing product teams, conflict resolution at scale, fixing shipyards, myths of developed markets, focusing on VC backed environments, and a sneak peek into 'Strong Product Communities' book.

Join Nabil Mohamed & Omar Sallam as the discuss how to build impactful roadmaps and how it relates to a product vision and a product strategy. This session is conducted in Arabic Nabil is an experienced Technology executive, and currently leads a workforce of more than 60 people (comprising Engineering, Product, UX Design, Analytics, and Operations) at 4Sale, - one of the Middle East’s largest online marketplaces. Upon graduating with Honors from the American University in Cairo’s Industrial Engineering program, Nabil held a variety of junior Product roles at Vodafone, focusing primarily on under-served consumer segments and price sensitivity. He then traveled to the US, earned an MBA at Harvard, and spent the following 5 years working primarily at Amazon. There, he held pivotal Product roles at both Amazon ReCommerce -helping automate damaged products’ destinations- and at Prime Video -radically improving the app’s offline experience. Nabil returned to Egypt in 2020, where he helped Instabug -a key global player in application quality management- expand its product portfolio and build out most of its stellar Product and Design teams and processes. He is presently focused on helping 4Sale -one of the Middle East's largest online marketplaces- expand into a regional powerhouse. Connect with Nabil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabil-mohamed-032a0782/ Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live. Connect with Omar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam/ Stay tuned, to The Product.Live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theproductlive Website: http://theproduct.live Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-live/id1709591037 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/45rlYYeXtxcZYzF4pNX0by Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theproduct.live/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-product-live

Subscribe to the YouTube channel right now so you won't miss the big moment, The Product.Live is launching in October 2023!! Welcome to The Product.Live where we immerse ourselves in the world of product management alongside industry leaders and experts. I'm your host, Omar Sallam, and I'm thrilled to guide you through profound discussions, revealing insights, and actionable wisdom shared by the brightest minds in the field. In our rapidly evolving business landscape, the art of product management has never been more critical. Whether you're a seasoned product manager, an aspiring entrant into the field, or simply curious about the inner workings of successful product development, this podcast is your indispensable resource. Join me as I sit down with renowned product leaders from top tech companies, startups, and esteemed organizations. Together, we'll explore the freshest trends, tried-and-true practices, and real-world quandaries of the product management realm. Expect to delve deep into a myriad of subjects. Whether you're commuting, hitting the gym, or seeking inspiration from the comfort of your home, The Product.Live is your gateway to sharpening your product management expertise. Our esteemed guests will share their triumphs, tribulations, and actionable advice that you can directly apply to your own product pursuits. Don't let the opportunity pass you by to elevate your product management acumen and stay at the forefront of this dynamic industry. Subscribe to The Product.Live on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify today, and let's embark on a journey toward mastering the art and science of product management! Stay tuned for the official launch in October 2023! #Product #TheProductLive #Podcast