Posted on seventh October 2022 by hstebbings1
Kevin Weil is President of Product and Enterprise @ Planet and Operator in Residence @ Scribble Ventures. Prior to now, Kevin has been Head of Product at Twitter, Instagram, and Novi (the digital forex effort inside Fb). Throughout his seven years at Twitter, he helped the corporate scale from 40 to 4000 folks and from $0 to $2B in income. He then moved to Instagram in 2016 to steer the product and knowledge groups and led by means of an inflection level as Instagram grew from 400M to over 1B customers, together with launching Instagram Tales. Kevin then co-founded Diem (previously generally known as Libra) and Novi and constructed each for 3 years earlier than shifting to Planet in 2021. If that was not sufficient, Kevin can be on the board of Strava, the Nature Conservancy, and the Black Product Managers Community.
In Right now’s Episode with Kevin Weil We Talk about:
1.) Classes From Main Product for Instagram and Twitter:
- What does Kevin imagine makes Instagram so inherently good at product? How did main product for Instagram change the best way Kevin thinks and operates?
- What are 1-2 of Kevin’s largest classes from working with Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s Founder?
- What are the most important takeaways for Kevin from main product at Twitter?
2.) Launching Merchandise, Buyer Discovery and Product Classes:
- What have been Kevin’s largest learnings from launching Instagram tales? How did Kevin’s conviction impression the product constructing and success of Instagram tales?
- How does Kevin advise founders on one of the simplest ways to strategy buyer discovery? What are the perfect inquiries to ask to disclose the reality?
- How does Kevin strategy product testing right now? Why does Kevin not like softly softly testing new merchandise?
3.) Kevin Weil: Management 101
- What are a few of the largest management errors that Kevin made in his time at Twitter?
- How does Kevin strategy decision-making frameworks? How does one steadiness the velocity vs the standard of the choice?
- What makes an important product technique? The place accomplish that many go unsuitable of their product technique?
- How do the perfect leaders talk with their staff? How does this alteration over time?
- What’s Kevin’s most well-liked medium and magnificence of communication along with his groups?
4.) Kevin Weil: The Athlete, Father and Husband:
- Kevin is an ultra-marathon runner, what does his coaching routine seem like?
- What 1-2 adjustments has Kevin made which have had the most important impression on efficiency?
- How does Kevin handle, investing, advising, coaching and being a father and husband?
