Bangaly Kaba

“So I think being a voracious reader is really, really critical because it helps to build your toolkit and you need arrows in your quiver to really understand how to think about the right framework and...”

“It's not, actually. But what was magical about the way he did it. It's like he would name people and their contributions and show how all of this came together into what is the path forward.”

“And it's the communication, but it's also the other side. It's the other coin, the side of communication, which is eliciting to figure out how you communicate back to others.”

“I certainly cannot take credit for understand work. This is part of an old Facebook framework of understand, identify, execute. What I-”

“And so we had to do that. And that was understand work for multiple people, for multiple teams. We had to do on the engineering side, we needed data science as analysis. We needed the PM to go and dog...”

“Well, I mean this is the irony of growth, is people think growth is overnight success and it's not. Right. It is a lot of short wins and short-term execution for a longer-term gain and really understa...”

“It feels like it gives meaning to stuff that otherwise people would brush aside.”

“Yeah. It's from like 2006 PC or something.”

“Yeah. I mean, they're not like a group of seven-year-olds,-”

“One thing that I also think about a lot, and I don't know if this is just a me thing, but I think about PM as a team sport. Right. Leading product teams is really about...”

“That's part of your job. You are trying to build a repository of skills and repository of knowledge and of team velocity. And the only way you can do that is everyone is... So rising tide has to lift ...”

“That's right. That's right. And it forces you to figure out how can you get things off of your plate so that you can go work on bigger things.”