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Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219

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ABOUT FARNAZ AZMOODEH

Farnaz is the CTO at Linktree, the leading social platform for creators and small businesses. Linktree enables its users to unify, curate, and monetize their online presence. Farnaz started her career at Google, focusing on the ad tech space. Farnaz then joined Snap, leading Snap's AR monetization team before scaling to run Snap's Platform and product engineering. Farnaz earned her bachelor's degree in computer science from Sharif University of Technology before moving to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California. After fulfilling the credits for a master’s degree, she decided to enter the tech industry where she could contribute to human progress by bringing products to millions of users.

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SHOW NOTES:

  • Taking on product & design 3 months into a new role (3:01)
  • Going from delivery to discovery: mindset shifts for eng leaders (5:58)
  • Identifying the current state of engineering, product & design (10:59)
  • Decision-making based on anecdotes vs. data (12:50)
  • Pivoting strategies to optimize for small, fast teams to improve cross-functional collaboration (15:04)
  • Signals to pivot your product approach & ****make different bets (16:59)
  • Complementary skill sets for rapid iteration (19:14)
  • How to avoid silencing critical input & transform team frustration into product insight (20:41)
  • Applying the 80/20 rule to complex product surfaces (23:46)
  • Case Study: Reprioritizing the LinkTree product w/ 80/20 approach (25:46)
  • Bringing on a strategic product partner & kicking off org change (27:28)
  • Be honest about your knowledge gaps (29:09)
  • How Farnaz’s experiences at Snap inform her leadership as CTO (33:21)
  • When pattern matching fails: frameworks for checking assumptions (35:22)
  • Where EPD Is headed: cross-functional evolution in the age of AI (38:10)
  • Rapid fire questions (38:58)

This episode wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:

Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-Host

Jerry Li - Co-Host

Noah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/

Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan’s also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/

Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

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ABOUT FARNAZ AZMOODEH

Farnaz is the CTO at Linktree, the leading social platform for creators and small businesses. Linktree enables its users to unify, curate, and monetize their online presence. Farnaz started her career at Google, focusing on the ad tech space. Farnaz then joined Snap, leading Snap's AR monetization team before scaling to run Snap's Platform and product engineering. Farnaz earned her bachelor's degree in computer science from Sharif University of Technology before moving to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California. After fulfilling the credits for a master’s degree, she decided to enter the tech industry where she could contribute to human progress by bringing products to millions of users.

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ElevenLabs is the leading Voice AI platform for developers with thousands of ultra-realistic, human-like voices across 32 languages.

Developers use ElevenLabs to build life-like, conversational AI voice agents to handle customer support queries, appointment scheduling, and even offer personalized 1-1 tutoring.

Get started for free at elevenlabs.io/elc

SHOW NOTES:

  • Taking on product & design 3 months into a new role (3:01)
  • Going from delivery to discovery: mindset shifts for eng leaders (5:58)
  • Identifying the current state of engineering, product & design (10:59)
  • Decision-making based on anecdotes vs. data (12:50)
  • Pivoting strategies to optimize for small, fast teams to improve cross-functional collaboration (15:04)
  • Signals to pivot your product approach & ****make different bets (16:59)
  • Complementary skill sets for rapid iteration (19:14)
  • How to avoid silencing critical input & transform team frustration into product insight (20:41)
  • Applying the 80/20 rule to complex product surfaces (23:46)
  • Case Study: Reprioritizing the LinkTree product w/ 80/20 approach (25:46)
  • Bringing on a strategic product partner & kicking off org change (27:28)
  • Be honest about your knowledge gaps (29:09)
  • How Farnaz’s experiences at Snap inform her leadership as CTO (33:21)
  • When pattern matching fails: frameworks for checking assumptions (35:22)
  • Where EPD Is headed: cross-functional evolution in the age of AI (38:10)
  • Rapid fire questions (38:58)

This episode wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:

Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-Host

Jerry Li - Co-Host

Noah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/

Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan’s also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/

Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

  continue reading

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