S01E13: Peak product management for startups with Ravi Mehta, Ex CPO, Tinder

Intuition, analytics, and research are the three pillars that you should rely on when you make a product decision according to product leader Ravi Mehta.
We had a chance to sit down and go in-depth with Ravi Mehta, former chief product officer at Tinder, and several other top tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft.
In this conversation, we talk about his journey as a product manager, his learnings from his days at Facebook, TripAdvisor, and later Tinder.
We also took on questions like:
🚀What's the right time for a startup to hire a product manager?
🚀What do peak product managers look like?
🚀How do you build products for Gen Z?
🚀Making startups antifragile.
And much more. Listen in.

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About the Guest

Ravi Mehta is a consumer tech leader who has built and scaled consumer tech products that have impacted millions of people’s lives and scaled teams to meet the challenge. Most recently, he was the Chief Product Officer at Tinder, he has previously held product roles at Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Microsoft Xbox.

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Host and Producer - Jayadevan PK

Assistant Producer - Shashwath J

Audio Engineer - Rajesh Subramanian