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Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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Key Competencies for Product Managers

Product execution is crucial for product managers, comprising of defining functional specifications, working with engineering and design teams to deliver the product, and ensuring high-quality work./nCustomer insight is equally important, including fluency with data, voice of the customer, and user experience design./nProduct strategy is another crucial aspect, which includes owning business outcomes, product vision and road mapping, and strategic impact./nLeadership and influencing people is essential, including stakeholder inclusion, team leadership, and managing up for winning support from leadership.

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Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching platform designed to help people reach their professional goals. In today’s podcast, we dive deep into Ravi’s product strategy stack framework and how it was used to develop a powerful strategy at Tinder. We also cover his other popular frameworks—the frontier of understanding and exponential feedback—and how both of them can help you grow in your career. We discuss the differences between building product at a startup versus a large tech company, and how Ravi has had to shift his mindset as he’s moved away from a product leadership role into a founder role. Finally, he shares a bit about how Outpace is using AI to amplify coaches and help make them more efficient and effective.

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Where to find Ravi Mehta:

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• Website: https://www.ravi-mehta.com/