Wes Kao is an executive coach, advisor, and entrepreneur who writes at newsletter.weskao.com. She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin.

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Wes Kao

Excited to be featured in Lenny Rachitsky’s “The AI-Native Product Manager” series. I’ll be teaching a free workshop on the topic “how to get buy-in as a PM.”

Of the 1,700 tech operators who have taken my course in the past 1.5 years, product managers are one of the biggest groups represented. About 1/3 of my private coaching clients are product leaders at companies like Meta, DoorDash, Atlassian, Amazon, Google, etc. I love working with product folks, and want to help you succeed because the bar for PMs is getting increasingly higher.

In this session, I’ll cover how to:

1. Present to impatient executives: Be prepared to move fast, speak directly, etc.

2. Manage up to senior leaders: Most PMs suck at managing up. We'll cover principles that will serve you now and throughout your career.

3. Anticipate questions and prevent skepticism: How to anticipate questions to avoid endless back-and-forth.

You will be able to apply these principles to stakeholders upwards, downwards, and laterally. 

The workshop will be on Friday, March 13 at 12pm ET. It will be an action-packed 30 minutes.

I rarely do free workshops, so if you’ve been curious about my course or found my Lenny podcast episode helpful, I hope to see you there.

Sign up link is in the comments.

a16z-backed founder turned executive coach. Helping tech operators improve their executive communication, leadership, and influence

Mileva Technology

-Collaborated with various corporations to identify and address areas for improvement in their operations, such as supply chain management and customer experience.

-Offered innovative solutions through comprehensive analyses, resulting in increased efficiency and cost savings.

Chief Innovation Officer

Klub Hive

Klub Hive is an app that uses AI to match you with active people and health centered businesses in your area based on shared sports, hobbies or activities.

Chief Executive Officer

Londr, LLC

Building Londr to transform the gig-economy space.

Toth Towel

Helping lower the germ transmission with our cotton one time use Toth Towel for cleaning or transferring medical tests.

Our product has a significant advantage compared to traditional hospital linen towels in the healthcare market because of our unique proprietary technology that provides a safe, disposable and quick way to clean any surface.
 Each sheet of the Toth Towel can easily remove dirt, oil, blood and cleaning products with little effort because they are made with surgical grade non-woven textiles which are highly absorbent.
 
The leak-proof backing provides better hygienic protection from liquid residue to the sheet beneath whereas traditional paper towels and tissues would soak through to the surface or onto the users gloves or hands because they do not have the essential impervious barrier.
 
We have customizable options for sourcing 100% of our non- woven fabric solely from cotton and corn to set a new sustainability precedent for disposable textiles.

The meltblown PLA backing also is slip resistant for extra grip when wearing gloves.

Wasted Inc.

Grocery stores and Farmers are suffering huge profit loss from the billions of dollars worth of food they throw away because they expire before selling. Roughly 50 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown awav-some 60 million tons (or $160 billion) worth of produce annually, an amount constituting "one third of all foodstuffs." Consumers are also frustrated because healthy foods like fresh produce, meats, and dairy are unaffordable to feed their families.
The only current solution? Coupons! Unfortunately, the majority of coupons are from The Big 10 that dominates our global food chain. These companies make couponing pure chaos by mailing them hidden within a messy stack of newspapers, then have their customers find, cut and organize by store and category and top it off with complicated instructions for redemption. BAM... they've got 20% off one processed and sugary cereal. #notworthit
Wasted Inc. aims to reduce costs and spoilage loss by creating a platform that will track food data in local grocery stores then showcase the items close to legal expiration date with significant discounts for faster sales. This will benefit the consumer with significant savings on healthy food and the grocers with profit that would have been wasted otherwise. Wasted will take a percentage of that each product sold that is featured.

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer

Brush That Off

Inventor of The Clushy which was originally created for professional makeup artists to clean their brushes and transformed into an all out remake of the paper towel. 

It's a flat out segment killer with multiple markets, multiple applications and no comparisons. 

Patent pending and copyrighted

Founder

Children’s Riot

Children’s Riot was started by a group of concerned mothers coming across child pornography on social media. Our focus is on changing accountability laws, partnering with social media companies to create safer platforms and encouraging unity and diversity to combat child trafficking and sexual child abuse content across the globe.

Chief Marketing Officer

Beautiful by Jessica Rene

Professional Makeup Artist for Film, Photography, Commercial, Fashion Show and Bridal with specialization in contour for high fashion.

Professional Makeup Artist

Rockin’ Socks Consultant

23 years of strategic planning consulting to explosive startup success… all with UNPAID organic growth methods. Rock on!

Founding Executive Director

As the Chief Innovation Officer at Mileva Technology, I collaborate with various corporations to identify and address areas for improvement in their operations, such as supply chain management and customer experience. I offer innovative solutions through comprehensive analyses, resulting in increased efficiency and cost savings. With over eight years of experience in this role, I have developed a keen eye for spotting opportunities and challenges, and a creative mindset for solving problems and delivering value.

My passion for innovation stems from my personal journey of overcoming adversity and achieving transformation. In 2012, I faced the nightmare of becoming a homeless single mom with two young children. I decided to turn this situation into my motivation and fear nothing for the rest of my life. Since then, I have pursued my education in entrepreneurship and international business, started my own company and invented a beauty product, and joined the Women's Startup Lab as a certified startup expert. I am driven by the mission of empowering others with innovation and creating positive impact in the world.

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