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Shreyas Doshi

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Shreyas Doshi

@shreyas

Led a couple of Stripe's most successful products from early days. Prev Twitter, Google, Yahoo. Now advising founders, coaching executives, teaching what I know

Oakland, CA

Joined March 2007

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Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Mar 26, 2021
3 types of product leaders: 1) The Operator 2) The Craftsperson 3) The Visionary It is important for you as a startup founder or CEO, product manager, or a product leader to deeply understand these types, as you make decisions on whom to hire or whom to work for. Thread👇🏾
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Feb 28, 2025
Middle managers in big companies
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@sciencegirl
Feb 28, 2025
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Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Jun 27, 2020
Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known. Some ppl are born/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later in life. High agency is a prerequisite for making a profound impact in one's life & work 1/20
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Feb 12, 2022
Advanced time management principles: (for senior product managers & leaders)
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Nov 17, 2021
Mission: Why Vision: What Strategy: How Segmentation: Who Positioning: Where Roadmap: When
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Feb 21, 2023
Just a few notes to myself (a driven & ambitious person): 1) Kings are overrated and usually unhappy. It is much better to be kingmaker. 2) Eventually, everyone realizes that they don’t want to be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. How quickly do you want to get there? 3) Legacy is
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Apr 11, 2020
There are Good Product Managers and there are Great Product Managers. There are also Okay Product Managers and Bad Product Managers, but we will focus on the Good and the Great here. Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers, a thread:
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Mar 28, 2021
A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about Very visual story thread👇🏾
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
May 30, 2021
A thread of product management frameworks: (this might be useful if you are a product manager, product leader, or founder)
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Jul 6, 2022
Some people who succeed wildly in school don’t achieve their apparent potential in the business world. Some others who do okay (or worse) in school manage to build an extremely successful life. Why is that? What we learn in school & must unlearn in business & in life: (1/10)
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Dec 17, 2021
As they grow in size, teams within megacorps and startups tend to implicitly bias more towards Project Thinking and not enough Product Thinking. Product Thinking is a mindset and a process that, once you see, you cannot unsee it. Product Thinking, Project Thinking, a thread:
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Sep 21, 2021
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly. A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Jul 5, 2023
A hilarious fact of corporate life is that your odds of getting promoted will be higher if you strategically escalate multiple times to your senior management while delivering your team’s goals than if you manage to deliver the very same goals without ever escalating.
Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas
Oct 12, 2023
“You are great at execution, the team loves you, but you need to be more strategic” Hearing this feedback from your direct manager or your skip manager can be very confusing. And for highly capable product people who consistently get things done, this theme of “you need to be