John Mark Nickels
Senior Director of Product Management @ Uber
Product leader on Uber Mobility team. Previously Director of PM at Waymo and Sr Director of PM at DoorDash.
“Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy, covering team leadership, product design, and pricing decisions.”
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“When I joined, we were already scaling UberX rapidly. I joined in early 2014. That's amazing. But I did help name Uber Pool, Uber Pool, which I selflessly like to bring back. It got renamed to Share d...”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
“Well, it's not really good for your podcast business to tell people not to listen to podcasts.”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
“Totally. Actually, Sam Harris's Waking Up app now has the entire... he worked with I think Alan Watts' son. So the Waking Up app has all 80 or 100 hours of recorded Alan Watts lectures.”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
“Yeah. The last movie I really enjoyed was Inside Out 2 with my kids, which is very-”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
“I do that in front of my kids and they laugh at me like, "Daddy is so weird sometimes."”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
“I was like, whoa, your competitor paranoia runs deep, man. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Anyway.”
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)