“today my guest is Vijay ayengar Vijay is currently head of product at mixed metal”
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Vijay Iyengar
Vijay is currently head of product at mixed metal
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“he started as an intern at Amazon and he was an engineer for a while at Uber”
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Productivity5 steps
Appetite Bracketing
Set a time budget, then ask what you'd do with more and less — the bracket reveals the efficient frontier.
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Strategy6 steps
Churn-Ranked Refocus Roadmap
When you're bleeding to competitors, throw out the plan and build the churn list, sorted by ARR.
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Leadership4 steps
Earn the No: Try to Make Yes Work First
Before rejecting an idea, sincerely attempt to make it work — then say no with receipts.
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Strategy5 steps
Invest Profits, Not People: The Core Expansion Test
Fund new bets from the core's profits — never by moving engineers off the core.
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Productivity4 steps
RICE with Deferred Confidence and Effort
Score reach and impact first; sit with the innovative bets before letting C and E kill them.
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Innovation5 steps
Server-Side Events as the Default
Track events from your servers, not your clients — logs with a user ID are already events.
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Strategy6 steps
Six-Month Bets with a Collapsed W
Leaders ideate inside the teams' jam sessions instead of reviewing their output from outside.
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Innovation5 steps
The Design-Led Architecture Stream
Give design a protected block to define the product's building blocks — or it will smuggle scope in at the end.
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Communication5 steps
The Ungated Customer Feed
Pipe raw customer feedback into Slack with no gatekeeper — and let engineers email the customer directly.
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