45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks - Product Management, Community & Productivity
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English - December 07, 2021 17:48 - 1 hour - 169 MBSelf-Improvement Education Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Suhas is the founder of The Product Folks - one of the largest volunteer-driven product management communities. He is also building Indistractable - a minimalist Android Launcher that helps you focus. We talk about cold-emailing, landing job in Europe, product management, building TPF, productivity, Twitter, NFT, Web3 and more.
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(00:32) Why is everyone congratulating Suhas right now
(1:52) Cold-emailing product leaders
(8:27) Landing product role at PepsiCo in Europe
(11:07) Origin story of The Product Folks
(16:42) Why Product Management?
(19:43) Finding Product Market Fit at TPF
(23:56) Building a massive volunteer team
(31:06) Backstage conversations with Product Leaders
(38:02) New Initiatives at TPF
(40:49) Define Product Manager
(43:10) Origin story of Indistractable
(46:28) Choosing Growth PM vertical
(49:24) Future of Indistractable
(53:03) Benefits of building an Android Launcher
(54:28) Productivity & Philosophy
(58:46) Twitter Usage
(01:01:19) Making friends on Twitter
(01:04:20) NFTs
(01:08:08) Interesting Web3 Projects
(01:09:25) Shark Tank India
(01:10:23) Building-Distribution balance