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Mihika Kapoor

Head of Product @ Simile AI

Building AI simulation of society at Simile. Previously founding PM for Figma Slides.

β€œBuilding 0 to 1 inside a company, covering product design, team leadership, and strategic decision-making.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Simile AIHead of Product~2025-present
FigmaProduct Manager (led Figma Slides 0-to-1)~2021-2025
Meta/InstagramProduct Manager, Direct Messaging~2019-2021

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β€œThat sounds good. One thing to call out is that I think when I think about my own PM style, it's definitely not a tick-all-the-boxes style. There are plenty of things that I'm very bad at that PMs are...”
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Mihika Kapoor

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

5:40
β€œBecause at the end of the day, simply describing a product idea in words is not as compelling as seeing a testimonial from a user on top of a prototype or a mock, and really feeling the pain points.”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

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β€œYeah. Well, the good thing is that with AI, it's getting way easier. So-”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

18:54
β€œWhen I started out my product career, I actually-”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

52:01
β€œMaybe we can do the latter two, because they're a little bit different than the other things we've been discussing. Yeah.”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

58:21
β€œAnd, we have a Instagram page amongst other things. And, yeah, last year we had folks like Stuart Weitzman and Joe Gebbia, who's one of the co-founders of Airbnb come and speak, which was super exciti...”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:12:24
β€œAlso, building off of that is as you scale your team, it's really important to be self-aware of what those blind spots are and to hire for that. Because, you want individuals to be spiky and you want ...”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:15:48
β€œ... project. And so there's this culture of celebrating things that have been pushed bottoms up. And so constantly thinking about how can people within the company be entrepreneurial, both in terms of...”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:18:03
β€œI think that there's this interesting metaphor that you were calling out earlier about a zero-to-one project being like a flame. And flames are interesting, because they're sort of destined to die at ...”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:18:46
β€œYeah, I'll start by saying that I am immediately skeptical of anyone who has not read Harry Potter. So, if you're one of those people, go read Harry Potter. Maybe, it contributes to creativity. I don'...”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:32:21
β€œI have not. I'll add that to my list.”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

1:34:01
β€œFavorite recent TV show would definitely be Severance.”
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

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