My guest today is Shishir Mehrotra, co-founder and CEO of Coda.Shishir is the co-founder and CEO of Coda and was YouTube's Chief Product Officer. We had a great chat about what I think is the best framework to grow your career, how a PM applied it to build a 0 to $1B product in 18 months, and other rituals to level up your strategy and leadership.
Timestamps:
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00:00) From 0 to $1B in just 18 months
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01:27) Introducing Shishir
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01:41) The best career growth framework you've never heard of
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03:35) Scope is the wrong metric to evaluate PMs
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07:12) Why PSHE applies to all functions
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10:13) Breaking into PM at Google using PSHE
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17:34) Solving obvious problems without stepping on toes
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24:23) The most underrated skill for PMs
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26:16) The WOW framework for strategy and planning
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31:26) The $100 exercise to get teams to think beyond their scope
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35:17) Have you seen small teams move faster?
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37:20) PSHE framework for small vs. large teams
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41:53) Selfless leadership and the trillion-dollar coach