Plato resources from the best leaders

Sameer Kalwani, Director of Product Management at Amazon Lab126, underlines the importance of precise identification of a budgeted problem in achieving a product-market fit.

Sameer Kalwani

Director Product Management at Amazon Lab126

Sameer Kalwani, Director of Product Management at Amazon Lab126, explains how to grow a team in the early startup phase by adding a few more product managers.

Sameer Kalwani

Director Product Management at Amazon Lab126

Sameer Kalwani, Director of Product Management at Amazon Lab126, shares how to build a disruptive product by working backward and putting yourself in your customers’ shoes.

Sameer Kalwani

Director Product Management at Amazon Lab126

Deepak Paramanand, Product Lead at Hitachi, shares how he built three different AI projects that all had one thing in common -- the ability to create or input data.

Deepak Paramanand

Product Lead at Hitachi

Deepak Paramanand, Product Lead at Hitachi, highlights the key differences between enterprise product management and the one that builds products for consumers and thus helps aspiring product managers choose the right career for them.

Deepak Paramanand

Product Lead at Hitachi

Deepak Paramanand, Product Lead at Hitachi, explains how his early efforts in stand-up comedy and experience of interaction between a performer and audience helped him better understand his colleagues and customers.

Deepak Paramanand

Product Lead at Hitachi

Deepak Paramanand, Product Lead at Hitachi, describes how founding a career on the uncertainty of a work visa and an immigrant experience made him more successful in his professional endeavors.

Deepak Paramanand

Product Lead at Hitachi

Fei Xu, Engineering Manager at Square, Inc., explains what are the advantages of a bi-directional roadmap and how to set it up right.

Fei Xu

Engineering Manager at Square Inc.

Fei Xu, Engineering Manager at Square, Inc., recalls how he approached the restructuring of his team with an intent to have them claim ownership and develop subject matter expertise.

Fei Xu

Engineering Manager at Square Inc.

Fei Xu, Engineering Manager at Square, Inc., discusses how tech microculture, typical for tech teams operating within large corporations, emerges and what are its main characteristics.

Fei Xu

Engineering Manager at Square Inc.

Karan Jain, Engineering Manager at Doordash, recalls his own experience of joining a new team and explains how a carefully planned approach helped him gain legitimacy and respect.

Karan Jain

Engineering Manager at Doordash

Peter Berg, Founder and CTO at Forward, recounts how he introduced processes for continuous improvement and thus creating a more psychologically safe working environment.

Peter Berg

Founder / CTO at Forward

Peter Berg, Founder and CTO at Forward, describes how he helped ramp up a slow-moving team by applying his simple, yet expert approach.

Peter Berg

Founder / CTO at Forward

rabha Matta, Senior Product Manager at SquareTrade, recalls her recent remote onboarding and compares it to her past in-person onboarding experiences.

Prabha Matta

Senior Product Manager at Square Trade

Prabha Matta, Senior Product Manager at SquareTrade, talks about her personal experience of looking for a PM job during the Covid-19 pandemics and how the changed circumstances affected her job search and interviewing process.

Prabha Matta

Senior Product Manager at Square Trade

Caroline Parnell, previously managed product teams at O2 and Vodafone, recalls how she made a mistake by going for quantity rather than quality of product trialists, and how that prevented her from receiving the best feedback on her product.

Caroline Parnell

Most recently Head of New Product Innovation at Previously O2 and Vodafone

Caroline Parnell, previously managed product teams at O2 and Vodafone, emphasizes the importance of networking for product leaders and giving in return some value to her peers.

Caroline Parnell

Most recently Head of New Product Innovation at Previously O2 and Vodafone

Caroline Parnell, previously managed product teams at O2 and Vodafone, shares some of the techniques she applied with her team to ensure diversity of thinking during product discovery workshops.

Caroline Parnell

Most recently Head of New Product Innovation at Previously O2 and Vodafone

Caroline Parnell, previously managed product teams at O2 and Vodafone, taps into her own experience of setting the first product innovation team and managing the process through a well-structured pipeline while collecting ideas coming from across the company.

Caroline Parnell

Most recently Head of New Product Innovation at Previously O2 and Vodafone

Justin Potts, VP of Engineering at MoneyLion, tackles the ever-intriguing problem of simplifying the architecture and thus reducing the overall complexity of the systems.

Justin Potts

Head of Engineering at MoneyLion