Lessons from a Startup Life
Lessons from a Startup Life Podcast
Episode One: Interview of Marily Nika
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Episode One: Interview of Marily Nika

On Product Management in the Age of AI and ChatGPT, and many other topics
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In this Podcast: Marily has many strong beliefs regarding product management today and its evolution. For example, she thinks that one day all PMs will be “AI PMs”.

Marily offers advice on when to hire a PM in your startup. She believes that ChatGPT is not an extinction event for PMs but more of a new technology that represents an evolutionary change. She thinks product management will be enhanced by ChatGPT and Generative AI.

There are many more questions that Marily addresses in this podcast.

Background: Today, Marily is the Product Lead for Avatars & Identity at Meta. She’s an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Marily teaches one of the most popular courses on Maven: Building AI Products - For Current & Aspiring Product Managers. Prior to Meta, she spent 8 years at Google as a product manager, working on Google Glass, machine learning around speech recognition. She is a three-time TEDx speaker. Marily earned a PhD in Computing Science and her Masters from Imperial College London. She is degreed from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and ETH Zurich.

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Lessons from a Startup Life
Lessons from a Startup Life Podcast
Doug Levin is the creator, writer and moderator of “Lessons from a Startup Life” – the podcast. Today he is a lecturer at Harvard Business School, board member, startup adviser, technology investor, and former CEO who has made it his life mission to share practical advice with anyone working in the tech or startup world. Relevant for executives, investors and employees alike, this expansion on his “Lessons” blog on SubStack, draws on decades of experience and provides a unique analysis of the market — from business plan creation, to forming a founders team and subsequently ELT, financing, culture and more. The end result is a playbook and insider’s approach to the startup game, with first-hand experience from guest experts who've gone through it themselves.