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Mihika Kapoor

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  1. “There is sort of this important cross pollination of functions that is really important in crafting a compelling vision. You want to always ensure that, you know, there are research insights that help you feel what a user is feeling. You want to ensure that there are like beautiful designs and prototypes that help communicate what this future world looks like. And you also want to root it in engineering and feasibility. And you want to be constantly, even in the vision phase, ensuring that what you're marching after is something that is achievable and something that you can work towards. And so I think a lot of folks, when they think about like visioning, they kind of think about, okay, how do we like start from scratch and learn about the user and then translate that into designs and then translate that into engineering and it becomes this like very almost like linear process.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Perspective on if you and your team do your job correctly, what does the world look like? In terms of crafting a compelling vision, I think that there's sort of a few aspects. The first is that you cannot go into a vacuum and come up with a compelling vision that does not exist. You have to be fundamentally inseparable from your users and also fundamentally inseparable from your team. And so I think that”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, absolutely. So, my take is that vision is everything. It is really important to create a vision that you believe in, that your team believes in, and that your company believes in. Because the reality of the product development cycle is that it's so messy, it's so chaotic, you're going to have, you know, extreme highs and extreme lows. You're going to march in a certain direction only to hear from your users that it might just be the wrong direction and totally pivot. And in order to ensure that moments like that are not discouraging, but rather sort of learning opportunities for your team, it's so important to be anchored on that singular vision because then any step along the way feels like forward progress. So first, just want to underscore the importance of like having that vision and that.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Really important. But for the other things, it's also, of course, important to have a sort of growth mindset and to constantly be conquering what comes next.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Important to have two things. One is, of course, lean into your strengths. I think that PMing is traditionally a sort of generalist role and people fall into it in a number of ways. But most often than not, I hear people fall into it by like trying a bunch of other things and then realizing that like, oh, hey, maybe this PM thing makes more sense for me. So like for me personally, it was I have always been like a very left brain right brain kind of a person. I majored in CS and minored in visual arts. And when I worked as a software engineer, I really missed the design side. And when I worked as a designer, I missed the technical. And moving into product was a really great way to kind of straddle both and have more touch points across the product development cycle. And so I think that, you know, based on how you fell into it, you might have different spikes and different strengths of leaning into those.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “That sounds good. Okay. I guess 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 traditionally supposed to be great at. So, you know, happy to chat about what makes sense.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Have this concept called Maker Week, which is our internal hackathon, giving people the breathing space to see ahead into the horizon and be wildly ambitious.”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “We lean heavily into designing and prototyping even before a project gets a green light. If you and your team do your job correctly, what does the world look like?”

    2024-04-21 · Lenny's Podcast · Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source