Led a couple of Stripe's most successful products from their early days (Stripe Connect, Stripe Terminal). Helped build the Product Management function at Stripe, as one of the early members of the PM team and as Stripe's first PM Manager. Led & grew several products at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, including some products & features you probably use daily / weekly.

Now, I advise startup founders, coach executives, do occasional speaking engagements, and teach.

Oh, and I also write about product management, leadership, org psychology, and strategy. >500k people have chosen to follow my writing & my ideas across Twitter, LinkedIn, Threads, and YouTube.

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Shreyas Doshi

A founder asked me in a recent advising call: “why do you teach?”

Here’s what I shared with him:

- It helps me scale my startup advising work: unfortunately, I cannot advise all the founders who reach out. In fact, I take very few formal advising roles, because I want to be certain it’s the right mutual fit (high growth company, fit with founder, challenging problems / huge opportunity, mutual availability). So my teaching is a great option for founders I cannot advise.

- I absolutely love it: in this next chapter of my career, I’ve decided to only work on things that I absolutely love. This means saying No to high prestige, rational opportunities (e.g. VC, leadership roles, podcasting, venture backed startup, etc.) Teaching is something I knew I wanted to do since my teenage years (at the time, I wanted to teach French, as I was very good at it in 10th grade). It isn’t for everyone and it is hard, but if it is for you, why not do it?

- It might be the best way *for me* to create further positive impact on our industry: to be clear, I don’t do anything because “I want to create a dent in the universe” (I know I won’t create any dent in the universe and will be forgotten shortly after I’m gone and I think that’s a wonderful thing, not something to be sad about). So while I am not teaching mainly to create a big impact, it is wonderful to read notes from 100s of students every month on how their products, teams, and their career are better off after taking my class. The total impact is hard to measure (and I am not going to try & measure it), but my gut says that the compounding impact from my teaching might be meaningful.

- I still get to solve fun product problems: one reason my teaching resonates strongly with some students is that I treat everything like a product. My (very small) team and I do more product thinking (and immediate application of that thinking) on a daily basis than I ever remember doing at Tier 1 companies I’ve worked at as a PM (reason: we are a tiny close-knit company and we view every problem through a product lens). This means exercising empathy, simulation, creativity, design in everything we do from course design, to communications, to community design, to marketing, to our operations. Plus, through my advising work, I get to work on the biggest product / GTM problems that founders are facing across dozens of domains and products.

- It works with my life: I work all 7 days of the week (mainly on my advising & teaching). The weeks I am teaching are particularly very intense (everyone in my house and my mom in India knows that I am basically unavailable those weeks). On the flip side though, my teaching + advising give me a lot more control over my schedule than almost any other work would. This means that I’ve been able to spend a lot more time with my son (17yrs, only child) over the past 4+ years than I could have otherwise. I like that.

Thank you for reading this far and for your continued love and support 💙 🙏

ex-Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo. Startup advisor.

ReversingLabs

Building AI driven security products for applications & cloud.

Senior Director of Product Management

Various Startups

+ I advise fast-growing startups on strategy, scaling, growth and product management.

Current Clients:

1. Security + Identity focussed Series D company building authentication products.
2. Web 3 focussed Series B company building wallet that makes interacting with blockchain-based products & services seamless.

+ Mentor to Co-founders, Product leaders, People Managers through PlatoHQ.

+ Investor at early stage startups.

Product Advisor

Gumroad

Angel Investor

Sysdig

• Building a next-generation cloud intelligence and security platform for SaaS companies.
• Helping customers move to SaaS and transition to cloud 
• I am hiring. https://grnh.se/pbk1sf0l1. Please reach out.

Director of Product Management

CircleCI

• Reported directly to the CEO, providing vital product + customer insights.
• Built and launched CircleCI 2.0, a modern CI / CD Platform that delighted users: http://circleci.com/blog/say-hello-to-circleci-2-0/
• Customer feedback for CircleCI 2.0: http://twitter.com/i/moments/877210697834184704

Product Management

Coverity

• Build Coverity's flagship product, Code Advisor, which helps find bugs and security for web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications.
• NASA used Coverity's Code Advisor for the seamless Operation of the Mar's Curiosity Rover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2KUQiVv_E

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft

Led Product Manager responsibilities, in addition to my primary role as software engineer. Experienced in Scrum / Agile methodologies.

• Co-inventor for innovative capacitive devices related technology, which is being used by Windows and Azure product teams within Microsoft.
• Member of Sensors + Devices Team, managing, designing and developing innovative sensor based solutions for devices being used in Windows, Phone, Xbox and Hololens.
• Responsible for devices solution being used by billion plus consumer and enterprise customers worldwide.

Software Engineer II

• Member of Device Connectivity Team, working on the development of delightful device experiences
• Partnered with cross group devices teams across Microsoft, for a seamless end-to-end experience.
• Mentored employees and interviewed engineering candidates for Microsoft.

Software Engineer

Qualcomm

‣ Designed and implemented AWiMA : Adhoc Wireless Mobile Internet Access over 3G/ WiFi using C/C++. Associated Research Paper : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4698858. 
‣ Developed product demo and presented to Qualcomm’s Product and Marketing Teams

Research Intern

Rhombus Technologies

‣ At this start-up, designed and implemented Hardware & Software Tracker, a network based hardware and software management application using C++ and SQL Server. Selectively trimmed feature list by 30% to enable rapid development of critical features. This application is deployed in 550+ companies.
‣ Took rough feature requests for new products and turned them into detailed technical requirements. Prepared (with CEO) business plans for clients, resulting in revenue growth by 200%.

Senior Software Developer

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

‣ Design and Development of IP Cores for Electronic Systems using Verilog.

Engineering Research Intern

Dhaval Shah is a results-driven product leader with a passion for building products that delight users. He is a multidisciplinary technology inventor who brings consumer grade experiences to enterprise products at scale. He approaches challenges from a holistic perspective and has built revolutionary products at Microsoft, Coverity, CircleCI, and Sysdig.

Dhaval enjoys building versatile teams and helps nurture diverse skills and perspectives. As a product leader, he focuses on blending technology, business, and design to create innovative products that users love. He excels in cultivating a culture that encourages creativity and experimentation, all while staying aligned with the company's vision.

Specialties: product management, ux/design, customer acquisition, retention planning, competitive analysis, people management, growth, strategy, cross-functional pm/design/engineering team management, pricing, agile methodology, nurture teams.

Dhaval Shah

Micro-habit for better focus:

Stop tab-switching while the AI "thinks."

When we use tools like Gemini or Claude, there is often a 5-10 second delay while the model processes or performs deep research.

Most of us instinctively use that micro-break to check notifications or scroll social media.

This creates "attention residue."

By the time the answer generates, your brain has already shifted context.

The Fix:

  1. Fight the urge to fill the silence.

  2. Sit with the problem for those few seconds.

  3. Read the chain of thought to understand how the AI is thinking.

  4. Watch the answer generate.

Retrain your brain to tolerate 10 seconds of stillness.

Your focus will thank you.

Product Management Leader | Ex-Microsoft | Building & Scaling 0-to-1 Products Globally

One of leadership's hardest disciplines is knowing when you have "enough" information.

We often fall into the trap of thinking that one more data point will guarantee a perfect outcome. It rarely does. 

It usually just delays the hard part: making the call.

I see this becoming a critical trap for decision-makers using AI. 

Because we can query endless perspectives, we often do ... hoping the AI will uncover a "perfect" path that carries zero risk.

But the best leaders use these tools differently. 

They don't use AI to endlessly weigh options; they use it to shorten the distance between a question and a decision.

In practice, this means: 

  • Stress-testing your hypothesis in 5 minutes instead of scheduling another meeting. 

  • Drafting the strategy doc you've been overthinking, then refining from there. 

  • Identifying the 2-3 factors that actually matter, not the 20 that feel comprehensive.

Don't let the abundance of insight prevent the courage to act.

Andrej Karpathy's advice to students applies just as well to work:

Don't optimize for performance reviews. 

Optimize for impact.

Do solid work on your core responsibilities, then redirect your energy to what actually compounds: 

  • Shipping products people use 
  • Solving hard problems 
  • Building relationships 
  • Sharing what you learn

Years from now, no one will remember your Q4 rating. 

They'll remember what you built and the problems you solved.

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