S01E13: Peak product management for startups with Ravi Mehta, Ex CPO, Tinder
12/01/20 • 55 min
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.
Get $10,000 free credits to use Freshworks products (including the brand new Freshworks CRM packed with AI-based lead scoring, phone, email, activity capture, and more) by joining the Freshworks for Startups program. Click here to check eligibility.
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
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.
Get $10,000 free credits to use Freshworks products (including the brand new Freshworks CRM packed with AI-based lead scoring, phone, email, activity capture, and more) by joining the Freshworks for Startups program. Click here to check eligibility.
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.
Sign up for regular updates from The Orbit Shift Podcast.
Subscribe to Ravi Mehta’s Newsletter
The Orbit Shift Podcast is Powered by Freshworks Inc. a global SaaS company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, consider giving us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts.
Host and Producer - Jayadevan PK
Assistant Producer - Shashwath J
Audio Engineer - Rajesh Subramanian
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S01E12: How to build and scale a modern sales engine with Jose Morales, CRO of Freshworks
As a startup founder, you must have gone through your fair share of sales playbooks, all claiming that they contain the ‘secret sauce’ to generate more leads and close more deals. This episode with sales leader Jose Morales is not that. In this episode, we explore the nuances of building a modern sales team — when to build one, how to build one, and how to set it up for success.
“Your customer looks at your sales rep as a trusted advisor. Someone that really understands their needs,” says Jose, the chief revenue officer at Freshworks.
Jose, who comes with an extensive track record of sales across the spectrum of startups — from the small company to the global giant — also covers how to scale modern sales teams, his sales philosophy, and several other questions that will help startups build an efficient sales organization.
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Get $10,000 free credits to use Freshworks products (including the brand new Freshworks CRM packed with AI-based lead scoring, phone, email, activity capture, and more) by joining the Freshworks for Startups program. Click here to check eligibility.
About the Guest
Jose Morales is the Chief Revenue Officer at Freshworks. He joined Freshworks from Atlassian, where he spent the last 10 years leading the field operations organization which included direct sales, partner programs, services, and other key GTM functions. The organization included teams supporting and driving the self-serve business to field sales organizations closing seven-figure deals in the global 2000. Jose joined Atlassian when they were less than $100M in revenue and helped grow them to over $1.8B in annual run rate. During that time he built teams in many countries including the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. Prior to Atlassian, he held other go-to-market roles with leading Silicon Valley software companies.
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The Orbit Shift Podcast is Powered by Freshworks Inc. a global SaaS company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
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Host and Producer - Jayadevan PK
Assistant Producer - Shashwath J
Audio Engineer - Rajesh Subramanian
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S01E14: Offensive and defensive startup plays during Covid with Armando Mann and Elad Gil
Our latest episode is a fireside chat between Armando Mann, Chief Business Officer at Hopin, and Elad Gil, entrepreneur, investor, and author. Elad walks us through how he sees companies coming out of the pandemic, the offensive and defensive moves a startup can take to protect themselves from uncertainties that arise during a pandemic, how companies can leverage the pandemic to recruit the best talent, explore new opportunities in mergers and acquisitions and go after enterprise clients. The future of remote work, the urgent needs, and problems startups are not addressing, what new technology Elad is most excited about, and much more.
Listen in.
Get $10,000 free credits to use Freshworks products (including the brand new Freshworks CRM packed with AI-based lead scoring, phone, email, activity capture, and more) by joining the Freshworks for Startups program. Click here to check eligibility.
About the Guest
Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase, Checkr, Gusto, Instacart, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, and Wish. He is co-founder and chairman at Color Genomics and its former CEO. Previously, Gil was VP of corporate strategy at Twitter after it acquired his firm Mixer Labs, and he was Google’s original product manager for Google Mobile Maps.
About the Host
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The Orbit Shift Podcast is Powered by Freshworks Inc. a global SaaS company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, consider giving us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts.
Host and Producer - Jayadevan PK
Assistant Producer - Shashwath J
Audio Engineer - Rajesh Subramanian
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