Maliekah talks about:
Richard in his talk discusses;
1. Evolution of Digital Payments in China
2. Development of China’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
3. Key features and functionality of the e-RMB.
4. Impact on mobile Payment wallets and commercial banks
5. Impact on US Dollar Hegemony
6. Domestic Use cases vs Cross Border use cases
7. Comparisons with other CBDCs
Shayak is a design executive with experience in building and leading design teams. He brings in a unique combination of corporate and entrepreneurial experience with multidisciplinary expertise in the product innovation process. Shayak is the Head of Design and a part of the leadership team at Practo - India's largest healthcare technology platform. Prior to this Shayak was heading Product Design at Commonfloor.com and was part of the core leadership team. Before that he worked at frog's team in India, facilitating design and delivery in coordination with frog's other offices worldwide. In 2008, Shayak co-founded Cheese, a User Experience design and development company steering it to a 100% YoY growth. Cheese was one among NASSCOM's Fastest 50 in 2010.
1. Is copying design a good idea?
2. What is good product design?
3. How do you communicate the tangible value of design to a company?
4. Is design just UX/UI?5. How much design is creativity vs data and feedback?
6. How does a design team need to think of working with a product team?
7. When you hire for your team: what do you look for?
8. Can anyone be in product design or you need specialised skills?
9. How is Amazon a design?
10. Is design the answer to onboard the next 500 million Indian?
Basis began with the vision of bridging the knowledge and trust gaps that women face while making financial decisions. While the number of financially independent women are on the rise in today’s society, there is just as much the absence of consumable content around helping them make informed decisions about their money. This was a gap that Founder and CEO Hena wanted to fill, and thus Basis was born.
Founded in 2018 by Hena Mehta and Dipika Jaikishan, Basis aims at building a future where women can make financially well-informed and independent decisions for themselves. This can be achieved through curated learning modules and educational content, community based outreach programmes and goal focused groups guided by secure networks of women guiding one another.So no matter where you are in your financial journey, Basis will always be useful.
They talk about:
Pramath is an entrepreneur, institution-builder, academic, executive, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Harappa Education, 9.9 Group, Ashoka University, Vedica Scholars Programme for women, and Naropa Fellowship. He was formerly the CEO of Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group, a leading media company, and a partner at McKinsey & Company. Drawing from his learnings through building successful educational institutions, Sinha went on to start Harappa Education in 2018 to address a core gap in the formal education system – honing cognitive, social, and behavioural skills required at the workplace.
In this conversation Pramath talks about:
Building for Bharat with Achyutha Sharma, Meesho
Meesho is primarily building for Bharat. Bharat is India’s non-cosmopolitan smartphone-enabled consumer segment where every region has its own language/dialect and consumer behaviour.
We speak to Achyutha about:
- What does User Research mean to Meesho?
- How to build a User Research Practice?
- How does User Research translate into product offering?
- How to set KPIs and measure outcomes?
Simon talks about:
About Sidu:
Sidu is an engineer by training, a manager at a high-technology company by profession and an entrepreneur at heart. He is a programmer for pleasure, and has been building software for fun and profit for nearly 30 years.
Sidu's last startup, C42 Engineering, was acquired in 2015 by GO-JEK Indonesia (now Pt. AKAB), one of the fastest-growing startups in the world and Indonesia's first unicorn, growing from ~500 orders/day to ~7 million orders/day and $10B in GMV in just 4 years.
Monica talks to Sidu about:
About Sidu and his journey into product management having dabbled multiple roles including entrepreneurship as a product consultant, startup founder and Dev engineer.
What lead to his journey into PM and then heading engineering at Gojek and hiring a lean team.
How has Gojek grown to being a unicorn and giving more established players a real run for their money?
Simon is a Product Expert, Writer, Singer and New Yorker.
He talks about:
Becoming a PM
Measuring Success
Personal Brand and Communication
Leading Product Teams
Rapid Fire
Neil Soni is the author of "The Startup Gold Mine" and an Innovation/ Growth consultant. Neil’s book "The Startup Gold Mine" is a playbook for corporates partnering with startups and curator of In this AMA, we talk him about:
William is the founding partner at Frontline Ventures. He was the youngest VC partner for a European VC fund when Frontline was set up. Eight years later, Frontline has €250M under management and 100 investments.
We speak to him about building a venture capital fund and what he has learnt about investing in startups.
Building for Asia’ Series on Product Management: Habit Building communities w/ TheProductfolks.
A discussion on building a volunteer-based product community. How "The Product Folks" community was created and how to drive engagement with the community via a product build.
Monica host's Sugandha in a free wheeling conversation about her journey into Product Management and now content operations at Netflix , building habit forming products and building products with exponential customer experience and value.
About Daman:
He has built and led/advised marketing/growth teams across multiple hyper-growth stage tech businesses in India: Milkbasket, WeChash, MobiKwik, LINE.
He has advised Whitehat Jr, Snapchat and many more.
We speak to him about:
Career Overview
Among all the industries you have worked in which has even the most challenging?
Why WhatsApp has such mammoth market penetration, and no one has been able to compete with them?
How is Growth different from Marketing?
How is a Brand Built?
Daman's thoughts on:
How do you think about the referral programs?
How to use Reviews for Copy creation?
Clubhouse's growth strategy?
Our guest is Shravan Tickoo, the Product Guy at BYJU's. About him in words:
Hey, I am Shravan, a Product Manager by Profession & a Growth enthusiast/ Entrepreneur by Heart!
I tell a little truth about Product Management, with a tinge of humour to it. You find value with joy - that's the bonus you can find on my profile :) - Check out the next PM Story for sure :)
In the last 6 years+ of Product Management Experience, I have worked across diverse industries in the startup ecosystem i.e Flipkart, Blackbuck, Times Group, Edureka and Now BYJUs for driving growth and product adoption across diverse verticals
A passionate first principle thinker, I believe in the concept of collective conscience - which means if you contribute back to the ecosystem and help it grow, the ecosystem contributes back and helps you grow as a network effect. I help startups grow & build user-centric products with immense adoption, drive GTM and mentor product enthusiasts on learning the fundamentals of product mindset/growth mindset i.e first principle thinking, user empathy, business models etc
Currently, I work at BYJU's where I am focused on making learning fun for kids by building personalized & engaging products for kids, am a Product Mentor at the BigShyft Platform & also a mentor/founder @ The product tree ( 2500+ PM / Growth enthusiasts community & growing)
In my free time, I read and write blogs on value creation, GTM and the evolution of consumer-facing products. I am also an avid reader of books especially on Psychology, Growth Mindset and Scaling startups
If you want to talk more about product management, go to market strategy or just want to discuss an interesting problem that could be solved, just drop a connection request or just email me: shravantickoo23@gmail.com
PS: I have a large book collection - you can also hit me up for recommendations