Maria Angelidou

two mistakes. One is they don't hire the right person. And so it could be either because they don't know what the role needs to be successful, or they don't know how to vet the person. They haven't seen what great looks like, and then they compromise really quickly. So that's one. And the second part is they don't know how to build a good product team from structure perspective.

What do I mean by that? If you look at every individual PM, they all make sense as individual hires. But if you put them all together as a product team, you're like, they're all junior and they're all high horsepower, high potential, but there's no one there to actually train them and get them to the next level and all of that stuff. So it's just like the structure sometimes doesn't get

What do I mean by that? If you look at every individual PM, they all make sense as individual hires. But if you put them all together as a product team, you're like, they're all junior and they're all high horsepower, high potential, but there's no one there to actually train them and get them to the next level and all of that stuff. So it's just like the structure sometimes doesn't get

What do I mean by that? If you look at every individual PM, they all make sense as individual hires. But if you put them all together as a product team, you're like, they're all junior and they're all high horsepower, high potential, but there's no one there to actually train them and get them to the next level and all of that stuff. So it's just like the structure sometimes doesn't get

build context as fast as possible, do a listening tour, build expertise in the company that you're joining, right? Like in the space that you're now gonna be building products for. Spend time with customers, spend time with your finance team to understand like all of the business behind it. And then at the same time, you know, start putting your points on the board.

build context as fast as possible, do a listening tour, build expertise in the company that you're joining, right? Like in the space that you're now gonna be building products for. Spend time with customers, spend time with your finance team to understand like all of the business behind it. And then at the same time, you know, start putting your points on the board.

build context as fast as possible, do a listening tour, build expertise in the company that you're joining, right? Like in the space that you're now gonna be building products for. Spend time with customers, spend time with your finance team to understand like all of the business behind it. And then at the same time, you know, start putting your points on the board.

Just make yourself valuable to your boss, to your team, to your peers. Like don't wait until you're an expert. I think you asked that question earlier and I think both of those are important.

Just make yourself valuable to your boss, to your team, to your peers. Like don't wait until you're an expert. I think you asked that question earlier and I think both of those are important.

Just make yourself valuable to your boss, to your team, to your peers. Like don't wait until you're an expert. I think you asked that question earlier and I think both of those are important.

Maybe I'll give you a couple. Well, I cannot not mention with everything that's going on in our industry, Satya and Microsoft and what he did with OpenAI and Infection AI. And I think he really saw that AI was like an all-in moment for Microsoft and actually the rest of tech and took a bet. And I think it's proving to be a pretty good bet. The other example I would maybe highlight is Instacart.

Maybe I'll give you a couple. Well, I cannot not mention with everything that's going on in our industry, Satya and Microsoft and what he did with OpenAI and Infection AI. And I think he really saw that AI was like an all-in moment for Microsoft and actually the rest of tech and took a bet. And I think it's proving to be a pretty good bet. The other example I would maybe highlight is Instacart.

Maybe I'll give you a couple. Well, I cannot not mention with everything that's going on in our industry, Satya and Microsoft and what he did with OpenAI and Infection AI. And I think he really saw that AI was like an all-in moment for Microsoft and actually the rest of tech and took a bet. And I think it's proving to be a pretty good bet. The other example I would maybe highlight is Instacart.

So Fiji is the CEO there and someone that I used to work with at Meta. And so I follow the company and I'm pretty impressed with what she's done with the company, right? Like she turned it around, made it profitable during difficult time. She brought in the high margin ads business. I think she is also taking this win-win mindset to all this approach.

So Fiji is the CEO there and someone that I used to work with at Meta. And so I follow the company and I'm pretty impressed with what she's done with the company, right? Like she turned it around, made it profitable during difficult time. She brought in the high margin ads business. I think she is also taking this win-win mindset to all this approach.

So Fiji is the CEO there and someone that I used to work with at Meta. And so I follow the company and I'm pretty impressed with what she's done with the company, right? Like she turned it around, made it profitable during difficult time. She brought in the high margin ads business. I think she is also taking this win-win mindset to all this approach.

I was reading about the deal that they made between Uber and Instacart. I think that's brilliant, both of them. It positioned them much better in restaurant delivery against players like DoorDash. She also is investing in healthy eating for low-income communities. So I think if you put all of that together, I think she's an incredible operator and it's been impressive to watch her.

I was reading about the deal that they made between Uber and Instacart. I think that's brilliant, both of them. It positioned them much better in restaurant delivery against players like DoorDash. She also is investing in healthy eating for low-income communities. So I think if you put all of that together, I think she's an incredible operator and it's been impressive to watch her.

I was reading about the deal that they made between Uber and Instacart. I think that's brilliant, both of them. It positioned them much better in restaurant delivery against players like DoorDash. She also is investing in healthy eating for low-income communities. So I think if you put all of that together, I think she's an incredible operator and it's been impressive to watch her.

Yeah, thank you for having me. It was fun.