Product management lessons from Stripe, Meta, and Microsoft with Vivek Sharma

Blake Thorne (@blakethorne - https://twitter.com/blakethorne) of LaunchNotes talks with Vivek Sharma of Stripe (formerly of Microsoft and Meta) about how being a generalist has helped him navigate a career in product. Vivek also shares 3 things that make Stripe unique in the way they build products.

Links

• Vivek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pucknorris

• Vivek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivsha/

• Vivek’s favorite product: https://chat.openai.com/chat

• Check out LaunchNotes: https://launchnotes.com

• Join Launch Awesome:  https://www.launchnotes.com/launch-awesome

• Follow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgMZx0kGDSSBAQG0wkDRyg

• Check out the LaunchNotes Podcast: https://launchnotes-podcast.launchnotes.io/
  

Show notes

(00:00) - Introductions

(03:57) - The value of being a generalist and listening really well

(10:05) - Working on the Revenue and Finance Automation Suite at Stripe

(20:45) - 3 things that make Stripe unique in the way they build products

(25:30) - How "Friction Logs" help improve the user experience at Stripe

(33:59) - Vivek's favorite product

Listen later? Here are the podcast links

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zKS5ZLRz4ig5iayUm1af5?si=ecc5af46041b45df

Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nailing-the-transition-from-ic-pm-to-product-leadership/id1646061444?i=1000597440994