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🚀 Session with Ananya Vats (Google PM | Former Microsoft, Swiggy) Career Trajectory: - Gain detailed insights into Ananya's journey to becoming a PM, with experiences from Microsoft, Swiggy, and Google. - Hear about the pivotal moments and challenges she overcame in her career. Company Shortlisting: - Discover Ananya's systematic approach to selecting companies. - Learn the importance of aligning with a company’s mission, culture, and values. Getting Interview Calls: - Proven strategies to increase your chances of getting interview calls. Interview Tactics: - Master the art of thorough interview preparation. - Understand the significance of knowing the company’s products. - Get tips on answering common PM interview questions. 📅 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/dSMJTWJ5 #shortlist #session #topmate #google #microsoft

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE Aditi Shrivastava breaks down Meesho's numbers for the first half of FY25: 🛍️Annualised recurring revenue: > $1 billion 🛒 Net merchandise value: Rs 14,251 crore ⬆️ 29% (y-o-y) 📌 Revenue: Rs 4,405 crore 24% 📌 Loss: Rs 41 crore The Arc Analysis: https://lnkd.in/g9tGkCS4 We're ON IT.

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CLSA published a detailed research report on India quick commerce. Recommended reading. Who will be the first to create a $50-100Bn company in India internet? #Zepto #Zomato #IndiaInternet

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#DesignAItools 🎨 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 , 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, Freelancers , Early Bird Learners & Other Stake Holders .... We all know Good UI/UX is one key aspect to product success🏳️. 🔹Rather than Traditional way like Paper Sketches , Scratch to low fidelity to mockups ,wireframes ..soon , we can fill this time gap & Faster iteration by using Product Design Ai tools like Galileo, Uizard ..soon. 🔹 ! "𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗼 𝗔𝗜" , the tool that transforms prompt or image inputs into beautiful, ready-to-use UI designs in seconds! 💡. Tool : - https://lnkd.in/gKw7_Ymt Whether you're: ✅ Brainstorming new ideas ✅ Updating an outdated design ✅ Starting fresh on a new project Galileo AI empowers you to: 🔹 Generate stunning UI designs from simple text descriptions 🔹 Convert sketches or images into functional wireframes or better designs 🔹 Easily export designs to any tool (like Figma) or code (like HTML) Pros: 1️⃣ Save Time – No more hours spent designing from scratch! 2️⃣ Inclusive Collaboration – Even non-designers can participate and brainstorm. 3️⃣ Accelerate Time to Market – Quickly iterate, validate, and launch faster. Cons: ⚠️ Limited exports (Figma, Code) on free credits. ⚠️ Customization – Like any AI tool, expect to fine-tune ~30% of the output. 🎨Couple of Samples, where i have created few designs( Fitness, Fintech & Other ) from this tool : - by giving prompts & ui images  Check in : - https://lnkd.in/g83ZgX58 Try to add these Design Ai tools in work to reduce some manual efforts & make faster outcomes . #startups #Productdesign #ProductManagement #Ai #DesignAitools #Entrepreneurship #innovation #Pm #India #Founders #UXDesign #UserExperience #UiUX

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Finally I can redirect folks to this video when they ask me what we did at Meesho :) Kudos to Ganesh and Parsh Kothari (Think School ®) for this well researched and lucid video. And of course - lots of respect to the team at Meesho for cracking this extremely competitive business. Grateful have rubbed shoulders with folks like Vidit Sourabh Prasanna Priya Ayush Milan Leena Sruthi over the journey. https://lnkd.in/gripaPVv #meesho #ecommerce #businessmodel

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Minimum-viable Product need not be a product at all ! It is anything that validates or negates the leap-of-faith hypothesis behind the product. Few examples of MVPs that were not products ⬇️

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People often come up to me and say they love our web design work. With the same enthusiasm, they introduce 3 Sided Coin as a web design company with kick ass work. And it amuses us all at the studio. We have more product design work out there than the number of websites we have designed. When that tag got to an uncomfortable itch, we pulled all our product design work on a new page on the website - including work for Flipkart, Urban Company, Zolve, and one of US’s biggest e-commerce platforms that we cannot publicly name. Reach out via DM if you have product ideas that need mad strategy and design help. Recent portfolio link in the first comment. #productdesign #uxui #strategy

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I recently did something I haven’t had to do before- drafted up a Mat Leave plan! Few good learnings from this process- 🕗 Start earlier than you expect I started drafting up my plan ~6 weeks ago, socializing it with different stakeholders, and adding sections after having conversations with people where I realized additional inputs would be helpful. I was also pretty aggressive about actively opening up the doc and talking it through *live* with folks to ensure they were active shapers of the content vs. just passively sending a doc around and folks only reading it for the first time after I was already gone and they needed something (guaranteed to lead to freakouts). 🤔 There aren’t a ton of models for how to do it “right” In fact, I really only found one template that resonated for me/ my role (thanks Tamara Hinckley & Lenny's Newsletter! https://lnkd.in/g4gyb5uD) Given this, you can shape whatever doc you want but starting *super* bare bones and building it iteratively as I talked to folks and actually figured out what questions they had worked well for me. 👥 Prioritize people first The part of my plan I spent the most time on by far was ensuring my team would be taken care of while I’m out. This included interim management responsibilities as well as writing detailed performance review notes. I also pre-delivered performance feedback to my team for the (majority of the) Half to ensure they heard the feedback from me first-hand and there weren't any surprises. 🤰 It’s important that leaders model taking leave I was lucky to see strong examples of this early in my career. In my mid-20's, one of my role models Laura Jones joined Uber pregnant and took a full leave only a couple months into her tenure. She was joining as the first Product Marketer at the company, establishing an entirely new function, and took leave only a few months into the new gig. Talk about GUTSY. She went on to build a 50+ large PMM Org at Uber, have a ton of impact on the company and brand, and is now CMO at Instacart, so I’d say things turned out okay. 😄 But what watching Laura taught me is that there's never a “good” time to have a baby and take leave, and no matter how important or senior you are you’re never going to get your child’s first few months of life back. Take the leave, and show your team they can take it too. I’m super grateful to Statsig for being a startup that recognizes that life happens- even when you’re building a company!- and offering a generous leave for both mothers and fathers at all levels. Excited for what this next chapter will bring and how it will change me as a doer and a leader… see you in a few months ✌️

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Winning isn’t always about medals. It’s about the process. 🏅 Lakshya Sen and many Indian athletes came close at the Paris 2024 Olympics. They were just a breath away from medals but fell short. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: It’s not just about that final score. It’s about the grind, the pressure, and the process. And they’ve nailed that. 💪 Product & Tech are no different. 🔹 You’ll lose—sometimes by an inch, sometimes by a mile. 🔹 You’ll face setbacks that make you question everything. 🔹 But every line of code, every product iteration, and every failure is experience. 🔹 That’s where the magic happens. ✨ With persistence, our athletes will soon start crushing it on the global stage. And if you keep pushing, reinventing, and refining, you’ll do the same in your career. 🚀 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬. And you’ll win too—maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it’s coming. ❤️ The only way to go is up. Are you ready to crush it? 💥 #AI #ProductManagement #GrowthMindset #Olympics ------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoying my content? ♻️ REPOST to share knowledge with your network! 🔔 I will help you master the future with AI & Growth Mindset🚀. Post schedule: Mon-Sat, 10:30 AM ⏰

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🚀 Indian Web Design: Why is it so cluttered ? Whenever we see a banking, ticketing website or any government based portal - we feel like there are too many things on the home page. I found a wonderful video on why they are designed that way? Well, it has roots in Culture, Mobile and Cost. ✨ Cultural Nuances Matter: India’s diverse cultural backdrop influences user preferences in ways you might not expect. High-context cultures here love subtlety – think designs that communicate more with less. 📱 Mobile-First Tech Boom: With smartphone adoption sky rocketed in the post Jio world, Indian designers are all about mobile-first strategies. 💸 Cost-Effective, Not Cheap: Yes, Indian web design is affordable, but that doesn’t mean compromising on quality. Functionality? Usability? are all encaps in it. 🌍 Diverse Regional Flavors: Designing for India means understanding regional differences, from language quirks to color symbolism. These details matter when connecting with local audiences. 💡 Human-Centric Design: It’s not just about pretty visuals – Indian designers focus on how people actually use the web. The result? Functional, intuitive, and user-friendly sites. #WebDesign #IndianTech #DigitalInnovation #UserExperience #MobileFirst

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🎙️ 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞? On the Venturis Stories Podcast, I (Palash Somani) dove deep with Gaurav Vaid and Arjun Ghatak to unlock the powerful lessons from India's historic T20 World Cup win and translate them into actionable strategies for YOU to level up your product management game! 🏏🌟 My non-traditional journey to Director of Product at Dream11 (civil engineer > finance > subscriptions > product!) is living proof that 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. 💪🚀 Here's a 𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐤 of what we discussed: ↳  𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐯𝐬. 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞: Growth mindset trumps having a traditional background.🧠 ↳  𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 + 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 + “𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟” = 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡. Balance data with a touch of "irrational belief" to spark innovation. 📊✨ ↳  𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 & 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫: Instead of “what” to build, focus on “why” - the desired outcome. 🎯 ↳  𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠: Be the ultimate all-rounder, just like a cricketer! Learn to shift gears and conquer any challenge. 🏆 ↳  𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦: India's World Cup win reveals the secrets to a high-performing product team (shared purpose, trust, and celebrating wins are key!). 🌟🤝🎉 ↳  𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈: How AI will transform the product landscape and the two paths for product managers. 🤖🚀 Huge thanks to Gaurav and Arjun for having me on the Venturis Stories Podcast! Ready to become a product management champion? Listen to the full conversation here: 🔗 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gd_FYFra 🔗 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gse-yVQq 🔗 Apple: https://lnkd.in/ga3vS4zA Let me know in the comments what resonated most with you! 🗨️ #productmanagement #growthmindset #dream11 #cricket #generativeAI #careerdevelopment ------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoying my content? 👍 Like and ♻️ repost if your network will find it useful! 🔔 Every Mon-Fri at 10:30 AM I talk about Product, AI and Growth Mindset. Follow to 10x your growth. 📆🕥🚀

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Is Zomato’s new 'Food Rescue' feature really going to solve for food wastage or is it just a PR stunt?! Lets find out. While we can do some guesstimates based on available data, but only time will tell if it truly delivers on the expected impact, like: - How much food is actually saved? (Conversion rate from food rescue notification to order) - Are there second-order effects impacting BAU (Business as usual)? (Think: changes in cancellation rates, order trends, or AOV in areas with higher cancellations). While the idea sounds great, I’ve learned to stay focused on the problem, not the solution—that’s how we iterate faster and solve effectively. One thing I found curious: if Zomato tested this feature in smaller markets first, wouldn’t they have mentioned initial results in their PR? Since I don't have the test data, Lets proceed with some guesstimates: Some data we have(thanks to Perplexity) - 400K cancellation per month, 13K per day, 550 Pincodes of Operations, ~20 Million DAU - 24 cancellation per pincode - in 24 hours, 1 cancellation per pincode per hour - 36K active users per pincode The success of this idea depends on several “ifs”: - User proximity: Must be within 3 km of the cancellation point (~36K DAU per pincode, assuming 3 km per pincode). - Notification read/action: Within 10 minutes. India’s average notification read rate is ~8% within 3 hours; assuming active users read 3x faster (~24%), this becomes 1.3% for a 10-minute window (24%/18). - User hunger: 80% of orders happen during meal times, with a 50% chance the user is hungry, giving ~40% probability. - No other food plans: ~20% probability they haven’t made other arrangements. - Food preference match: ~25% probability, assuming 50% chance for veg/non-veg and 50% for cuisine. - Acceptance of deal price: ~50%. (These are some back of the envelop estimates, don't hold me for these ;)) Combining these, we might find ~5 users likely to convert. But even if the conversion rate is as low as 0.00001, that’s okay—since there’s only one item to sell. So, the odds look decent for saving the food :) ! As a product person, I know these kind of interesting ideas are often discussed in backlogs but shelved due to some “pessimism” or because they don’t seem to move any needle on growth or cost savings. Yet, hats off to the product manager who pushed this forward! Here the leadership who approved this probably knew that even if the metric value wasn’t huge, it would make for great PR. This is a great reminder that sometimes it’s worth building features that might not directly impact key metrics but are simply good for customers or society—and, as a bonus, they often bring some free PR. #ProductManagement #ProductImpact #Zomato #FoodRescue

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We asked our PM Fellows to create a Tear down of a product of choice. Akash Sharma created this tear down of Kuku FM. Nice attempt Akash. Want to do something similar? Join our upcoming batch on ProductHood School #productmanagement #teardowns

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Zepto cap table - less than 1% ownership with each founder and 6-8% each with their UAE based family members. Looks like highly optimized tax structuring in case of a liquidity event (IPO). With this ownership, pushing nationalism narrative is a lost battle. Introduction of nationalism narrative in the internet consumer categories is typically not a good sign. Amazon is preferred because of its faster deliveries and better customer experiences, and not because of being American or Indian. Grocery + FMCG market has a fixed TAM at a local level with very minor increase y-o-y. It would be unreasonable to assume that because of economy growing or onset of quick commerce, an individual household will start consuming more fruits, cereals etc or food habits/lifestyle will change drastically in a short period. It will not. This means that the demand which earlier used to get fulfilled by Kiranas and other hypermarkets is getting shifted to QC. One doesn't need market reports/data to arrive at this conclusion. Hopefully, everyone could find a middle ground in this reality.

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Thrilled and proud to share our incredible journey of building the shopping experience for the two-wheeler category at Flipkart alongside this stellar team of rockstars! With a customer-first approach, we've crafted unique solutions tailored specifically for this category — from immersive product visualization to expert guidance, seamless registration, insurance options, and easy financing. These innovations have been key drivers in propelling this category to a 6X YoY growth! This is just the beginning — excited for the road ahead! 🚀🚀 #Teamwork #Innovation #CustomerExperience #Growth #TwoWheelerRevolution #Flipkart PS - link to the article in comments. Niranjan Sundararaman | Sorabh Vij | Pramod Prasanna | Deepak Nair | Hariharan Vinayagam | Rahul Jain | Akhielesh Dube | Ranjit Moudgal

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Why does CRED make so many ads with huge no. of celebrities from sports & entertainment endorsing them? How does CRED make viral content and how does it benefit them? Let us demystify that in this blog. CRED has followed the footsteps of most start-ups and followed the following framework 1. Identify a customer pain point CRED identified the pain point of late fees for credit card payments even if the customer delays the bill payment by a day. 2. Create a superior solution CRED created an app with an easy and user-friendly user interface. Is it superior to other options available to the customers? Please let me know in the comments below. 3. Raise money As of June 2022, CRED raised over $900 Million across 9 funding rounds. 4. Acquire Customers Invest heavily on marketing, giving the customers discounts and offers which are too good to be true. 5. Form a Habit This phase is in progress for CRED. Only time will tell if CRED can change customer behavior completely. Once a customer is habituated to a superior solution, the irreversible damage is done. They will never go back to their previous solution. CRED’s target segment is the millennials. These are the group of individuals who have one or more credit cards & have faced the problem of late credit card payment fees. That’s why the CRED decided to choose celebrities that appeal to the Millennials. Some of the content that CRED has created is listed below. 1. CRED AUDITIONS Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Bappi Lahiri, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Daler Mehndi & Govinda appeared in these ads. https://lnkd.in/g35uAG3Y 2. IPL 2021 ADVERTISEMENTS Neeraj Chopra, Jackie Shroff, Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad & Maninder Singh, Rahul Dravid, Kumar Sanu, and Kapil Dev, appeared in these ads https://lnkd.in/gxvEHVmK 3. THE LONG GAME Vishwanathan Anand, Sunil Chhetri, Anil Kumble, Dhanraj Pillai, Mary Kom, Pankaj Advani, Anju Bobby George, Jhulan Goswamy, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Kiran More, Mithali Raj and Ashish Nehra. https://lnkd.in/gH3ikBKJ 4. IPL 2022 ADVERTISEMENTS Karishma Kapoor, Anu Kapoor, Renuka Shahane, Sonu Nigam & Shaan appear in these ads. https://lnkd.in/gszFuSXP 5. IPL 2024 ADVERTISEMENTS SS Rajamouli, David Warner, Illa Arun, and Leander Paes appear in this series of ads. https://lnkd.in/g2-bQ2Gq Previously my favorite CRED ad was Rahul Dravid’s “Indiranagar Ka Gunda”. Now, SS Rajamouli and David Warner’s new ad is my favorite CRED ad. This ad is different from their regular theme of ads for millennials appealing to all age groups. Which is your favorite CRED ad? https://lnkd.in/gHMfZjcQ #Advertisement #MarketingStrategy #Marketing #CRED

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Great report on "#Conversational #Commerce" by Bain & Company..! 1. Untapped Digital Opportunity: Despite 650 million Indians being active on social media and messaging platforms, only 30% shop online. This presents a vast opportunity for eCommerce growth through better digital engagement using #GenAI - voice-first and super-easy Gen AI experiences. 2. Custom Conversational #Commerce Potential: Generative AI-powered conversational journeys can enhance customer engagement and drive transactions, addressing app fatigue and the preference for specific assisted shopping experiences among users. It offers: - Speed for users in a hurry - Better discovery for slow shoppers - Easy discount search for price-sensitive customers 3. Personalization: Leverage deep knowledge of each customer and their shopping behavior to continuously make the experience more relevant. For example, the AI could ask, "How is your dog?" if it knows that you have a dog. There's a 4th point which I would like to add.  4. Warm, Friendly, and Fun Shopping: GenAI has the potential to make shopping warm, friendly, and fun, reminiscent of shopping at small kirana shops with familiar faces at the counters. Cheers..!! Arpan Sheth Sriwatsan Krishnan Navneet Chahal Kathleen Tandy Sandhya Devanathan

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Nothing brings more joy than seeing a vision come to life—empowering businesses to truly have it all. At nurture.retail, our journey is about more than just numbers like 100,000+ retailers and 9,000+ SKUs. It’s about rewriting what’s possible, just like this creative twist on Shashi Kapoor’s iconic line: "Mere paas gaadi hai, bungalow hai, paisa hai… aur maa bhi!" We’re building a platform where our partners don’t have to choose between scaling their business and fulfilling their dreams. Together, we’re redefining success—growing connections, fostering progress, and celebrating every milestone along the way. What does having it all mean to you? Let’s grow and shape this journey together. #Innovation #Empowerment #RetailTech #GrowthJourney #productleadership #ecommerce #agtech

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