Every founder. Builder. Designer. Programmer. Team lead. Leaders in technical and non technical offices should read this thread.

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know:

After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way.

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Software Developer

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Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Link for actual thread and comments - 

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/15p8qrx/my_0100m0_in_5_years_story/

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Computer Operator

I am told that to start a company I need to stop thinking like an engineer but I feel that I need to perfect the features and do research on what will work. 
What am I doing wrong?

Founders here, did you code/ build you own product while you was starting?

Product Head

Hi all, please post all the startups that you know of that are hiring for either Strategy or Generalist roles.

Hiring Thread - Strategy/Founder's Office

Founder’s Office

Where are all the tech founders looking for non-tech founders? 🧐😂

Wherever I look, non-tech founders are looking for tech founders

I am a non-techie. For some time, I have been working on a SaaS project (Bubble, Supabase, ChatGPT) alone. Don't have enough cash to build a team. 

Can you help me out with these questions: 
1. Advice you would give to someone who is just starting out.  
2. What should I do to earn the respect of my future team. Considering I am a young non-techie and SaaS is all about tech.

To all Founders/Senior Management

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Anyone hiring for Program managers, founders office, growth manager roles?

Hiring Thread March

Growth Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

Product Manager

Theres a salary progression thread for everyone, but I suspect most of them are developers.

Let's hear from the designers.

Whats been your salary progression so far as a designer?

Salary progression: Designers

Product Designer

I am addressing folks who have progressed in their careers enough to earn at least 30 LPA.

If you are earning this much in India, you are already in the creamy layer of lifestyle. You can afford a decent house, a decent car and probably save up some assets for children's education (A lot of people bring up the expensive school fees). 

If you get a salary hike from 30LPA to 40LPA, there is a high chance that your lifestyle will not change that much. Your savings will go up, but still it will take years to retire early in either case. It's quite apparent that if you want to improve your lifestyle at this stage (highest-end middle class), you will require an income source capable of providing leverage and exponential growth.

Barring a few folks I know, everyone else is busy grinding leetcode, mugging up system design for their next job switch or even worse, kissing ass for the next promotion. 

Why don't enough people start learning about business on the side and slowly start investing their free time in learning everything they can about it ? I am sure it will be a much better time investment if you play your cards correctly for a long enough time (I am pretty sure this is still a quicker path to riches as compared to 30 years of SIP investments).

Note: I completely understand that many people have monthly payment obligations like EMIs. And that's why my question is about 'aspirations'. I am not asking 'Why are people not leaving their jobs to pursue entrepreneurship?'. I am rather asking 'Why are people not even thinking about anything else apart from the next (disappointing) hike?'

Why are there not enough folks having entrepreneurial aspirations?

Being an entrepreneur isn't about skills, its about temperament. 
  
 The former is coachable, the latter isn't.  
  
 That's why you don't have everyone jump head first into being an entrepreneur.

Sales Manager

Software Engineer

PM of 5 years. Same place the whole time. We have a new Engineering Manager. 

They started 2 months ago and at first they seemed like they were very happy to learn our process and products. Then they soon started to manipulate the Engineering team which was very cooperative earlier.

It’s incredibly demotivating. We are a small startup, and the culture isn’t great but seriously no need to be so dismissive of other people’s efforts and feelings. They are just fucking rude. No other word for it really. The problem is that they do NOT get the product side of things so you can’t explain anything to them. They start to physically roll their eyes when you go anymore product than the word “PRD”.

I have never had to deal with someone like this and it’s really stressing me out as they are involved in effectively every project I work on. Advice that isn’t “quit” will be appreciated.

I should also clarify that when I say “product limitations” I really mean how much effort goes into getting things right, the delays are shearing the roadmap apart.

why do Software Engineers act so rude? How to solve this in my team?

As a Product Manager, why do Software Engineers act so rude?

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

In my corporate experience, I have observed two kinds of leaders - 1) A hard task master, very high on IQ but more often than not low on EQ and 2) High on EQ, above avg on IQ. I as a manager/ leader fall under 2) and usually get work done without authority but I do experience at times, some peers and reportees taking advantage of my behaviour

 In my view, anecdotally I see type 1) leaders succeed more in corporates even if it comes at the cost of facing flak/hate from directs/indirects. One of my previous managers was unpopular for his toxicity but somehow I kind of built a decent bond with him. Once over drinks and dinner, he candidly told me, I'm not here in this organization for making friends and I'm here only to get results and he did deliver on results every year.

My question is, can type 2 leaders even climb up the ladder specially where cut throat competition exists. Sometimes I do feel I need to be more like type 1 leaders obviously not at the cost of toxicity - disrespect, shouting etc. 

What are your thoughts?

Task Master vs Empathetic leader

Program Manager

It's getting more and more salary obsessed and culture obsessed with young minds and mid level folks these days. While it's important that those two are important, sometimes I wonder how founding folks build a team that feels together, ships fast with great quality, don't give up on each other and stay longer in the company.

If you have been a part of such teams or managing such, leave thoughts here on what helped to achieve that state - could be how framworks, culture, customer obsession, etc are used.

Leave your thoughts. How do you build an engineering team that stays together for decades when building early startups?

To all people who have switched from conventional corporate careers like consulting, banking etc. to a founder's office role

How has your experience been?
What worked/ didn't work?
What do you think is a long term play here?
What should one consider before switching?

Do mention the stage and industry. TIA!

Your founder's office role experience

Business Analyst

Context: Folks do you think being a early member (~20 employees only) in a startup with founders who are celebrated entrepreneurs with immense influence and popularity helps you in your career and growth? The founder is a champion investor btw. Now I'm ONLY concerned about my personal growth as a PM.
Do you think it'll be useful for my future?

Need advice : Working under legendary and influential founders

https://x.com/maheshperi/status/1772489350934110510?t=Ondrw6T8B_p4piYFyH703w&s=08

Good thread. Please read and give your insights in comments

Hello everyone, I recently started my company and now want to hire actual people in the IT space.

As other fellow humans, how'd you like the interview process to be for engineering roles? I don't want to follow the crazy white board algorithm norms, I need the job to get done, idc if you google or use ChatGPT as long as you understand the problem and the solution.

Please share your inputs!

New Startup Trying To Hire Humans

Founder

After the recent post of mine related to entrepreneurship that picked up on grapevine, and also after using it for a long time, I realised this is a potential community to find gems. 

Looking out for a passionate SDE, who wants to dive into entrepreneurship and for a long ride and can own up the entire tech stack (pure ESOP oriented)

We are moving in a solid direction as per the vision in our Ed-tech startup all driven by AI.

Solving a massive global problem (validated!) 

comment if you are open for such opportunities and will take it forward from there.

For Engineers with balls (take it lightly 💀)

Last 3 years of startups have been all about SaaS. I just don't get it. So far, it was about solving real problems at scale.
First with consumer websites (google etc), then software, then shopping & delivery (amazon swiggy zomato fk etc etc) 

And now, it's all SaaS:
- Imma build a startup to help white businessmen in America do better billing 
- Imma build a 360 degree feedback tool specifically for Norwegian miners 
- Imma build a SaaS software to help HR people note down who isn't dressed properly
- Imma build a software to help hillbillies in the US better manage their trucking company

Like how are smart people in India taking up entrepreneurship to build these ideas that are dull and feel like the end of life? How does anybody become excited by this? 

is it just money? what am I missing?

SaaS: Why are people so attracted to it? (mini rant)

Analyst

Hi, as the title says, i would really like to hear about success stories about individuals, who despite their lack of formal technical education managed to make a career in tech with sheer perseverance and grit.

Success stories about individuals from a Non tech background as well as no degree.

Hear me out here,

Starting up is much more than idea PMF MVP CAC capital etc
There are so many basic paperwork questions - how to register company, GST, what all funds can government help with, how to get them, what startup programs 
Or behavioral questions - friends coming to build business, insecurity, anxiety, non - business backgrounds, job to business journey 

The top customers are here 
Many founders too, people who have built companies from scratch 
Founders who have failed and yet not given up
First time founders who built it big, navigating inevitable issues 

These basic questions could be very helpful

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