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Mayur Kamat

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Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)

May 22, 20251h 37m

Guest: Mayur Kamat - Chief Product Officer at N26. Mayur has extensive experience in product management, having held leadership roles at Binance, Agoda, Google, and Microsoft, making him a seasoned expert in the fintech and tech industries. Key Takeaways: High Growth Environments: Working at rapidly growing companies accelerates learning and career growth due to the compounding effect of experiences and network building. Strengths Alignment: Identify and focus on roles that leverage your strengths rather than trying to improve weaknesses. This leads to greater job satisfaction and career success. Experimentation Culture: Implementing a strong experimentation culture can turn product strategy into a scientific process, allowing for rapid hypothesis testing and data-driven decision-making. Global Product Insights: Experience in different regions (US, Europe, Asia) provides valuable insights into global product development and regulatory challenges, enhancing product management skills. Leverage in Decision-Making: Focus on high-leverage problems that can have a significant positive or negative impact, and be willing to dive into details to solve them effectively. Topics Covered: Product management career advice, strengths-based career development, experimentation culture, global product development, fintech challenges, high-leverage decision-making, regional work experiences.

Notable Quotes

โ€œYou can't do this by having a traditional log structure.โ€

Company culture at Binance

โ€œWhen you have really smart people, you give them really hard problems, you have no constraints on what can you need to solve them, whether it's money, people, except time.โ€

Problem-solving at Binance

โ€œIf you make a wrong decision, if you make it fast enough, you would know it was wrong and you would correct it.โ€

Decision-making