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Shweta Shrivastava

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first: 2023-04-09
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“You can find me on LinkedIn. And then if you are interested in opportunities at BMO, go to WeimoCareers webpage. You should see all the open positions. It's okay for you to reach out to me on LinkedIn as well for product management roles. How can listeners be useful to me? I would say, hey, sign up for the right in Phoenix or San Francisco and LA when we opened up, give us feedback.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did you actually do it on the so there's a feature if you have a Google, you have to download the Google Assistant, but you can actually play your playlist in the car.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, our organ of people just going back and forth. And then, you know, and adding more people and then adding more people. And they're like, everybody chimes in, but where is this thing really headed?”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wouldn't say that this is a product development process, you know, although different parts of phase of my career, I've definitely instituted different types of processes and tools that have helped improve the product development, but I would give you an interesting one that I used a lot in my prior company, and then I use a different form of think here at VMO is what I used to call is the role of seven. If there have been seven emails in an email thread and you still haven't resolved the issue, So it's call the person or get in a room, huddle, resolve it live. But, you know, the long email exchanges that don't converge and go anywhere, I feel are a waste of time for many people. So I'm like, you know, you've got a limit. They're mostly bigger companies. So the limit's more like 10. But if you haven't resolved something within an X number of emails, please just get on a call, get in a room and get resolved.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wouldn't say that I had recently discovered it. It's on my wish list to buy very soon. I'm all for sustainable mobility, so I am shopping for affordable e-bike. I can do more mountain biking without doing mountain biking. That's the sustainable part for me, I guess.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, especially at the senior levels, I always ask them was one time that you failed. Either say that they've never failed or they're trying to guise a success story as a failure story are usually disingenuous or have not had the depth of experience. So I ask that question and I'm looking for some real solid examples there.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have an eight year old daughter, so my viewing choices are very much influenced by what she watches. But let's see. I did enjoy the top gun, the new top gun movie, top gun maverick quite a bit. Forced it in the theater and visuals were just fantastic. I think it was also inspiring to see what Tom Cruz was able to do. It's quite a feat that he pulled off at this age. I was very inspirational”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Crossing the chasm by Jeffrey Moore and Clayton Christensen's innovator still amarr still sort of the two plastics and product management that I have quoted a lot and I have recommended to many folks.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We are already in Phoenix metro area In San Francisco. So, in those cities, you can just go and download the app and you can use the service. We have done initial fully autonomous testing in LA, and we're going to be expanding in LE through the rest of the year. So stay tuned for more development on that front. And then we do have a list of cities that we're going to be rolling out in the coming years, but unfortunately I can't share that list just as yet”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you have to be focused on sort of really creating the right come from impact for the company and not optimizing for yourself to get promoted. If you try to maneuver that too much, A, it becomes visible, right? And it's not necessarily a positive signal to the organization when they can see that that's what you're trying to do. And it also distracts you from the things that you need to be focusing on. So I would say improve your skill set as a product measure, make sure that you've made your wish known that you want to work on challenging high visibility projects or products, right? That really test or stretch your skills and then be really dedicated to that cause and work on what has the business impact for the company, right? Do the right things.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is about, you have to focus on sort of the impact, right? It's about having an impact. And then doing what is right for the business. So not sort of optimizing things for your promotion, which we are all ambitious human beings. And there's nothing wrong with wanting a promotion just to be clear, right? And there's nothing wrong with being ambitious. But then focus on the impact, right? Are you working on the right things that will have the right outcome for the business? Because if you are and if you are giving it to your 100%, that will be visible, right? And making your ambitions known to your manager, to your leader is a good thing, right? That you should. And so when the right opportunity comes, at least your leader or manager is aware that this person wanted to work on something more challenging. So maybe I put her or him on that project.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going to say something that might sound a little cheeky, right? But I think the way to get promotive is to not want it too badly.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think one take or one tip that I could. Is just challenging your own assumptions, right? So I think listening with an open mind, within, you know, are you proactively trying to challenge your own assumptions is extremely important, right? As a beginner product manager, as well as a seasoned product leader, if you're not doing enough of that, then I think you might not be listening well, right? Or you might not be picking on sort of the cues. Then you're just no conflict, if there's no contention, then something is missing.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The team that you're working with in different companies have different cultures. So when you're working with, let's say, an engineering leader, being able to understand what are his or her constraints, right? Where is he or she coming from? What does impact look like to that person? And then understanding where you're aligned, where you're not aligned are things that you have to develop and start paying a lot more attention to as you sort of rise in your career or go up the ladder. And I think a lot of that for me came by just being in different kind of situations and different environments.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I think for me, part of it was just doing this over and over again in different environments, right? In different product launches that I've led in different types of companies that I've worked with in startup as well as big company, right? The dynamic is different, right? And again, the”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is the one thing that I would say that somebody who's starting out as a product manager, you know, really try to follow that principle and then listening and empathy is going to go a long way in terms of being able to be able to do that.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And really be true to that tenet of working backwards from the customer problem, not just save because it's become such a platitude now in the product world.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“think the listening and Empathy are the top ones. These are very important. I think when folks think about product management, they think about sort of the influencing without authority and prioritization and being able to write good PREs, et cetera, right, all those things are sort of more top of mind. The listening and empathy, I wouldn't say that they are underrated. I think there is now a lot more recognition that these are sort of core skills if you want to be able to influence a lot without authority. But I think it's easier said than done. You really have to come in with that growth mindset that with that beginner's mindset, be able to absorb and just learn and listen and don't jump in with ideas necessarily, right? We take the time to formulate.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Amazon, I launched, or I was the first PM, and then I grow the team around it for a no-code application development platform called Honey Code, right? So that was a brand new service Amazon had never delved in that space before. It was more sort of more infrastructure focused on this was sort of a first of its kind service that the team worked on. And this has played out many times in my career. And so I am a big believer in disrupting yourself before somebody else does it.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Somebody else does because it's going to happen. It's inevitable. And large companies that are constantly sort of challenging themselves and disrupting their own models, right, or their own capabilities to produce something more transformational for the customers are the ones that really succeed. And I think this is where the product leaders have to bring in that mindset of, hey, are we getting too complacent or it's time to.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This one is not become his, I would say, even in startup, it's extremely important to know what you're not building because you could very easily get swayed by customer X telling you to do this, customer Y telling you to do that, and a product that tries to be all things to all people usually doesn't end up going anywhere. So that focus, that prioritization and being crisp about what you're building and what you're not building is very important. And then in the context of the large companies, what I was going to say was I think it's the classic innovator's dilemma, right? The large companies tend to be the market share leaders in their focus areas. And so the product team and the product leaders can get very incremental in their product strategy and then lo and behold, you can see an upstart that comes and disrupts them, right? And so I have definitely learned the lesson that you need to disrupt yourself before.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The explicit PR FAQ process that Amazon follows is, I think, its own version of it. But it is about sort of focusing on the customer problem. Now, VAMO is also a very different kind of product, right? It's highly integrated. So n different types of product management flavors, if you will, right? Some are more technically focused and technically deep, some more commercially focused. So they all adapt. They have their versions of working backwards from the customer problem. But that still remains the core tenet in my mind. Big less those, at least working in some of the large companies that I have had is it's also very important to know what you're not building, right?”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In terms of the product, whether you're working for a big company or a startup, the core product management tenant is still the same, which is you have to work backwards from the customer problem or the user problem, right? Building a technology for the sake of it doesn't really go that far, right? So you really have to focus on the what are you building, who are you building it for, and what problem are you solving? And this applies in any context, right? Amazon has this great process where the PMs have to write a press release for the finished product even before they start building the product. That's the first thing that they have to do is to write that press release, like the product's about to launch today, right? What are you telling the users about that product? Really forces them to think about the value proposition more thoroughly, right? And I know many other companies are starting.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Our own expectations. I think these are very positive signals to our investors as well. And another startup as well. It's not about you have to do what's the right thing for the business, right? That's what you for. Your focus is on creating value for the customers, creating value for the writers, right? You have to build a business that makes sense. And the investors see that too, right? We're not going to do something unnatural or something that doesn't align with the business goals in order to gain any short-term brownie points with investors. I think it doesn't work that way. And the investors will see through that too, definitely alphabet, you know. Has been our backer for forever, right? So it's really about focusing on building the right business and doing the right thing for the users.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so first of all, we are fortunate that we have the backing from Alphabet and other investors. And the autonomous vehicle industry is interesting. And I think the last year has been interesting with more consolidation happening. So I think the name of the game here is to show progress, right? Show meaningful progress and meaningful progress not just in terms of technology, but in terms of commercial deployments, right? That is the rubber meets the road, if you will, phase of the product. And the results have to speak for themselves, for our investors to have the confidence in us, right? So notwithstanding what's happening to other AB companies in the industry, it's about what we are doing. And they look at the progress that we've been making and where we are headed and the fact that we've been sort of accelerating our milestones and blowing through.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I don't like to drive in snow, even Tapo. I avoid on waste nowadays. But yeah, you know, that is something that we still have to build as a capability in driving forgiveness. No, fine now. So that's great.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The technology is already there. L5, I'm not sure, you know, maybe that becomes more niche, et cetera. It solves very specific use cases. In terms of the blocker, I would say, the technology is there, but it still needs improvements, especially we were not able to drive in snow yet, right? Something that we have to tackle in future.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So let me share my opinion on the M5, right? So I think L4 for, you know, for those who might not be very familiar with this term, you know, N2L3 is. Still very much driver assist. It gets to some level of autonomy, but then relies on the human driver at the wheel to be able to take over in complex situations. L4 is fully autonomous without a human driver at the wheel and no expectation of a human driver at the wheel. That's what we've been focusing on. L5 would be in any kind of road, right, completely unstructured, off-roading in that kind of an environment, be able to drive without any map, without any hires, what have you. And we believe that by offering the kind of service that we are offering in Phoenix and San Francisco and then LA through the rest of this year and other cities in future, it helps realize that the dream of the fully autonomous driving in a big way, right, without having to go to L5. So I think that in”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How much did the vehicle slow down unduly, right? Or in how many instances in a given week did it have to rely on sort of a rescue help, right? Those are the situations that we want to avoid. And then how much did we slow down the traffic for other road users, right? So we again do extensive benchmarking and look at the priors, et cetera, and really understand what would an adequate performance be there and measure our own against that.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's, I'm simplifying, and several things go into sort of both calculating the benchmark as well as our performance against that benchmark. But that at the core of it, that's what we're trying to do. So that's on the safety side. And then I would say on the tops and strandings, which is trying to, you know, which goes in the different direction, hey, you can be very safe if you're not moving at all. That's not what we're building, right? We need to make sure that the writers get to their destination on time. So it has to be making, it has to be appropriately assertive and be making the right progress. And so, again, how”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The goal here is to be able to drive safer than humans, right? Now we don't really have one standard human driving benchmark, right? Safety benchmark that everybody uses. But we do gather enough of that data. We have access to enough of that data to form an opinion on or a metric on, a benchmark on what does human driving look like, you know, how many collisions as an example human driver would have every hundred thousand miles. And then we want to make sure that our performance is better than that.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The cost, right? How much does the thing costing us to operate? So that's, I would say, all the stuff on the commercial scaling side. And then on the driver performance of the driver VMware driver is the technology name, as I alluded to earlier. The driver performance metrics, they span across safety, the compliance to the road rules, our ability to make adequate progress as in not get unduly stopped or stranded in dense traffic situations as an example.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are tons of these metrics, right? That we analyze on sort of a daily basis, weekly basis, depending upon what the metric is. But if I were to categorize them in sort of two broad categories that would be the commercial and operational metrics and the system behavior metrics, right? So one thing, one important thing to note here is that it's not, we're not in a proof of concept or a pilot phase anymore. This is the service that we are offering to writers, a paid service in Phoenix and also it's open to public in San Francisco, right? So it's an actual service. And so we're tracking the commercial metrics in terms of the trips per week, right? Daily or weekly active users and all the funnel metrics that you can think of. Also the operational metrics, right?”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Adhering to the speed limit, even without traffic, sometimes is not the best thing. You have to go below the speed limit. And we realize that for driving in sort of the slopes or the gradients, the street with inclines in San Francisco, there are many of those, right? The human brain is trained to, or the human drivers are sort of subconsciously, they slow down when they go downhill. The autonomous vehicle doesn't necessarily have to do that if it's safe. And if it's staying below the speed limit But we learned that this is a more natural driving experience, right? And this is what our writers would also expect in terms of the experience. So that's something that we then modify the behavior on.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if I can point to one thing. You know, it is, again, this is such a holistic experience that I think it has to be a bunch of small things to make it feel natural, transparent, and trustworthy to the writers. And I can give you one example that I don't think I've mentioned in the discussion so far. Again, because the system is designed to be cautious and defensive, but still making adequate progress in the absence of traffic, right? It will never go up above the speed limit. It doesn't go about the speed limit. It sticks or adheres to the speed limit is something that a lot of our writers actually appreciate about the system. Now, it turns out that”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That it feels that way, you know, the naturalness, the smoothness, and still sort of adhering to safety at all times are things that are designed into the system. And then we make sure that the writer has visibility into what's happening, they're not bearing the seatbelt, the writer support would call them, right? So then they know, okay, there's a human that they can reach out to if they have an issue. They can look at monitor in the car to understand what the car is seeing. So I think all these little things help develop that trust in the system”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Credible, predictable, and the writers have to be able to trust the system, right? So that has been sort of the core of the design philosophy. And so what happens is, and I heard this from you as well, which resonated with me, and I've heard this from a lot of our writers, that they feel, you know, it's like for the first five minutes of the ride, it's, wow, is this thing really happening, right? But then it starts to feel very natural. And, you know, as if this is how it was always meant to be, right? After the first one, it's like uneventful. That's exactly how it's supposed to feel, but it's not a happenstance”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Since you mentioned Tesla, I just want to clarify that it's a different system that we're building, which is for way more, we started by solving the problem of Fully autonomous driving without a human driver at the wheel from the get-go, right? It's not a driver assist or ADAS system which relies on the human driver taking over when there's a complex situation, right? So I think that expectation is built into that kind of a product, right? And so the human, you know, the folks who are using that product would also have that mindset that, hey, I should be ready to take over when the situation demands. Because we built the system from the get-go to work in a fully autonomous mode without a human driver intervention rate at the wheel, we had to integrate this into our design philosophy from the very beginning that this has to feel”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The core product management philosophy of getting an MVP out there and then iterating with the real world deployment, it applies, but it's just a different bar on that MVP.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The road safer, right? We have about 1.35 million deaths that happen every year across the world from traffic accidents. And most of that is attributable to driving errors. And driver distraction, right? And I'm sure I've been guilty of being on checking my text messages while driving. I've seen other drivers do that with a fully autonomous technology. You don't have that risk. That's the risk we're trying to minimize. So they have to be driven by that mission. One other thing is that the concept of MDP, right, which is so widely popular in the SaaS product management world or product management world in general, has a whole new meaning here at Weibo when you work in a product like this because safety is on top of mind for all of us, right? And we can't really cut corners on safety. There's no MVP bar itself for safety is extremely high for us.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Compared to what they would do in other software products, they have to be able to get into the details as much as needed. They have to be okay with uncertainty and ambiguity. Again, I think that is part and parcel of any product management role, but it's even more so here, right? This is a long game, and so you have to have that tenacity to play the long game and be continuously improving the product and make this thing a broad reality in future. So those are some of the attributes. I would also say that there is some level of self-selection here. You have to be driven by the mission.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I worked that way. I'm a fan, right? And they have been pretty transformational with AWS and on the e-commerce side. But a fully autonomous driving system, you know, it's also a very, very hard problem, right? It's transformational from that perspective too. I would say that the PMCR have to be able to go technically deep.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As I said earlier, you know, it's a highly complex, technically complex system that we have built and we're improving. And it's, if I may cease, what's the most game-changing product that anybody would ever work on.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the car also has to learn about those social norms and be able to react to it. So it's, like I said, we don't realize how And how social driving really is and with our artificial intelligence capabilities, we have been able to incorporate a lot of that into our system behavior.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All those signals. So because we're using deep learning models trained on human driving, but again, in a good way, right? We discard the bad human driving data. We can mimic human driving behavior in a good way. And that's why you saw the behavior that you saw yesterday. Now, one thing to note is we can't also just completely rely on explicit gestures and signs, right? Because a lot of driving is also social norms, right? If you're in a particular section in San Francisco, maybe it's okay for pedestrians to cross even when they don't have a walk sign, right? Another city, another intersection might have a different social norm when it comes to pedestrians crossing the four-way stop sign or the crosswalk or what have you.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're using a lot of human driving data to train our deep learned models. So it's important to make sure that the behavior of the car doesn't seem robotic. It can feel quite unnatural. And from the get-go, we focused on building affiliate tonnage systems. So it's important to have that familiarity, that trust, you know, building with the writers where they're not daunted by technology. They don't feel like they're sitting in a rock. It has to feel very human-like, but in a good way, right? Making it safer than human driving, but then not making it feel unnatural. And so we have deep learned models that can understand what the other road users intent is. So stuff like which way the pedestrian is looking, right? Or what is their body orientation? Is that could tell you which way they're headed, the road signs or the gestures, right? Somebody is trying to stop the vehicle. The system can understand.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm glad that you were able to do that and on a rainy day, so that's a special bonus because, again, you know, the technology has been performing very well, which has been very heartening for us to see.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my team's responsible for three key areas. I would say one is building a big part of the software that actually runs onboard, the fully autonomous vehicle, and that determines the actual behavior and trajectory of the vehicle. Secondly, building the simulation tools and technologies that are required to validate the performance of the system. And then a third one of the teams focused on commercially scaling our wide hinting business, which is one of our key go-to-market applications for the technology we're building.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are you practically trying to challenge your own assumptions? It's extremely important, right? As a big nut product manager, as well as a seasoned product leader, if you're not doing enough of that, then I think you might not be listening. There's no conflict, if there's no contention, then something is missing.”
2023-04-09 · Lenny's Podcast · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source