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With product guru Shiva Rajaraman (ex VP Product @ Spotify & Dir. Product Mgmt @ Google).
Wed, Jan 04, 2017 @ 06:30 PM   FREE   Product School NY, 1412 Broadway, 22nd Fl
 
   
 
 
              

      
 
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<P STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: helvetica; color: #888888;">Join us for a session with Shiva Rajaraman, a product guru who hasworked as:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: helvetica; color: #888888;">- VP of Product at Spotify</SPAN><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: helvetica; color: #888888;">- Director of Product Management at Google</SPAN><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: helvetica; color: #888888;">- Senior Product Manager at Twitter</SPAN><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: helvetica; color: #888888;">- Senior Product Manager at YouTube</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;">He's learned what it take to build amazing products and how to get your foot in the door.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;"><SPAN STYLE="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Shiva will discuss what it's like to work in this dynamic role and you'll also get the inside scoop on the day-to-day work as a PM, the challenges of the job and personal insight from Shiva's experience.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: normal; color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><STRONG STYLE="color: #888888; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Key Takeaways:</STRONG></P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;">Understand your community and relish their randomness. That culture is your biggest asset.</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;">Don't just build features, build capabilities. Then point those capabilities at new problems.</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;">Understand the underlying need and then "hack the full stack" to solve it</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #888888;">You aren't just a product, you are an ecosystem. Cultivate your supply and demand sides.</SPAN><BR></SPAN></LI>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="color: #888888; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">6:30 - 6:45: Meet & Greet</SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; color: #888888;"><EM>*Snacks and refreshments will be provided</EM></SPAN></P>
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<DIV CLASS="gmail_extra" STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><A STYLE="font-size: medium;" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivarajaraman" REL="nofollow">Shiva</A><SPAN STYLE="color: #888888; font-size: medium;"> has a strong record of building products and teams at YouTube, Google, and most recently Spotify where he led the consumer product organization. Earlier in his career, he worked in enterprise analytics helping to solve problems for media and retail companies and is especially to excited to see data increasingly democratized and applied towards solving some of the world's most pressing problems especially healthcare and education. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="gmail_extra" STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #888888; font-size: medium;">Back in the day, he honed his chops in a few startups ranging from gaming to public sector procurement. Putting it all together he enjoys it most when companies create new ecosystems not just utilities, helping people do things that otherwise would be impossible. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley and a Master's from Wharton. Most importantly he's a loyal follower of cat memes which he's found can express every human emotion with more color and care than anyone expected</SPAN></DIV>
 
 
 
 
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