Uri Ashi is a senior product designer at Gong.io, the leading Revenue Intelligence platform, leveraging AI to go beyond traditional CRM and transform revenue teams. Besides that, Uri (pronounced Oori) is also a peace activist, a published author and illustrator, an award-winning animator, an entrepreneur (x2), a basso in a choir, a backing vocalist, and a guitar player in Gong’s band, a husband and a father. 

Farheen has a background in engineering and worked at PayPal for many years before moving into Product Management at Zendesk. She currently leads Buying Experience, which is a part of the broader Growth and Monetization team. She is interested in anything related to growth and revenue drivers for a product, KPIs that matter vs. not, and solving complex business and technical problems. She is also interested in learning the guitar but has been procrastinating for over a year now.

We sat down with Zia Mohammad to chat about his life journey, the identities he's carried, and his career journey in product management. Zia is a Sr. Product Manager at AWS Quantum and holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience from The Ohio State University. Outside of work, Zia can be found reading about technology policy, globetrotting, or searching for the best dessert shop in NYC. Zia's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ziamohammad

Ebony was the former Vice President of Product for Forbes and started as a project manager and spent 6+ years there. Before joining Forbes, Ebony worked at ESPN, GLG, and NINE21. She spoke with us about working at Forbes and how she got started in Product. 

Yusuf is a Product Manager at Gartner, a leading research and advisory company. Yusuf works on Gartner's digital recommendations system, aiming to personalize users' interaction with Gartner. In his role, he develops and enhances product features that help surface the resources that are most relevant and of interest to the user based on the problem they're trying to solve, with minimal user effort. Prior to being a PM, Yusuf worked as a mechanical engineer and later moved to Strategy and Ops post my Master's. Outside work, he enjoys hiking, cooking, and discussing pop culture!

Richard is a Product Manager at The Delta, a leading venture builder in Europe and Africa. He's had experience validating ventures for entrepreneurs and corporates and is currently working with a German startup in the home services space, driving their platform development and strategic initiatives.

Austin is a Lead Product Manager at Softr, the easiest no-code web app builder. Previously, he has built products at growth-stage companies like Klook and Landbot. Austin can often share his thoughts about product-led growth, SaaS, and product management at: austinyang.co.

Papatya is a Senior Product Manager in the Delivery team at Deliveroo. She is responsible for the product roadmap and metrics associated with solving the problem of optimally matching our logistics network's capacity to meet order demand. Effectively matching our delivery capacity powered by a self-employed Rider fleet to a highly peaky and variable order demand profile- whilst at the same time maintaining a strong, compliant Rider proposition- is at the heart of the problem her team is trying to solve. Before Papatya joined Deliveroo, she was at BP. She led the roadmap and delivery of our first ever virtual payment card product aimed at small and micro-businesses in central Europe. Before this, Papatya was in the aerospace sector for five years, working across various roles in three different countries, always working at that interface between the business and technology- which is where she loves to be!

Parth is a Senior Product Manager at Tesla, where he manages the ownership experience for Tesla's Energy Products (Solar Panels, Solar Roof, Powerwall, and Wall Connector). Before that, he co-founded and exited a startup in the Virtual Reality space, where he led Product and tech. When he is not busy, Parth loves gaming and hiking. He also follows Soccer and is an ardent Formula 1 fan.

Kaivalya leads enterprise products at HackerRank that help the largest tech companies recruit engineers effectively. He also owns HackerRank's integration strategy, app ecosystem, and API platform. In this episode, Kaivalya speaks with Dwayne about finding the next big play, hiring the right team, and a product culture that makes startups successful.