Tamar Yehoshua

Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack)

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Opening
Tamar Yehoshua (00:00:00): Make sure you go somewhere where you have a good engineering partner. Because if you have great ideas of what to build but you can't get them built, then you go nowhere. So that has to be part of your evaluation criteria that you meet and value your engineering partner before you join. And then I think what's really important is that you're aligned. You understand your roles and responsibilities and where you're going to divide and conquer and where you're going to be aligned....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Low-ego framing
led product design and research as the company scaled 10Xed their revenue,...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Tamar Yehoshua (00:02:15): Thank you so much for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (00:02:17): I've had so many people recommend you coming on this podcast....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
that is just chaotic and it feels like we don't know what we're doing, I don't know how this thing is running, I don't know how this will continue to be successful, your experience is it ... Is it that...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:16:53): Awesome. Tamar, thank you so much for being here. Tamar Yehoshua (01:16:56): Thank you for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (01:16:57): Bye,...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
Tamar Yehoshua (01:16:19): Find me on LinkedIn and I have a subject called Practical Intelligence where I've been interviewing practitioners who are working with AI. It was my way of learning. I started when I was a VC. Trying to continue doing it. And how can I be helpful if you are a customer of Glean, I'd love to know what you think, what works and what does more. Lenny Rachitsky (01:16:40): What's the best way to share that with you? Is it like messaging on LinkedIn, subscribe to Substack?...

The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.