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00:01:08 · S5, S6, S7
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00:01:41 · Yuhki Yamashita
[00:01:41] S8: I've always talked about the importance of storytelling, especially for product management. And as a product manager, you're often not the person building the final product directly. You're not necessarily writing the code. Oftentimes, you're not really designing directly either. You're operating in a slightly removed way, and so your core job is to motivate everyone to be focused on the right thing or to be motivated to solve a particular kind of problem. If you can't actually motivate people in that way, then you're not gonna be able to get people to build and design the most compelling products, solve the problems in the best way. People understanding what problem they're solving, people feeling really excited to work on it, those are only possible with really great stories, with really great storytelling. So I think that's the first thing. My name is Yuhki Yamashita, and I'm the chief product officer here at Figma. Figma is a product that teams all around the world use to build digital products. So it's a design collaboration platform, and you can go all the way from brainstorming an idea in FigJam, which is our whiteboarding and brainstorming tool, bringing life to them in Figma by making mocks and interactive prototypes, and then actually turning them into final products via a new thing we have called dev mode. So we really think about the end to end product development process. I grew up in different parts of Asia. I spent half my childhood in Tokyo, and that's where I'm from, and other parts in Southeast Asia, like Singapore and The Philippines. And through all of that, I spent a lot of time just doing design and specifically graphic design and publication design, working on newspapers and magazines and things like that. So that was always a passion of mine. When you saw people's reactions, when they're impressed with what what you created and also when you see what you designed and it's like printed a thousand times, there's something really satisfying about it and really delightful about it. And I think that was when I really was at this ability to create something that so many people see was really just something that I fell
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00:03:47 · Yuhki Yamashita
[00:03:47] S8: with. I think building products was even a better version of that, which is not only are you designing, creating something that is actually gonna make someone's life better. In college, I studied computer science, I think when I started learning programming and started building, web sites and little apps and things like that and seeing people use it and somehow saving them five minutes of time or making them smile, like those are kind of things that are really motivating, think, and still remain sources of motivation for me. Well, I was still very new to the idea of what is product management. And the reason I chose it was mostly because I didn't really know what to do. Know? I didn't consider myself a really great engineer. I didn't know that being a designer was a real profession at the time. And so just... It felt like a role that would let me understand all the different parts of the business. And so that's why I chose that kind of job, and Microsoft seemed like a really great place to learn from a lot of amazing people. I grew up on a lot of Microsoft products as well. Google is interesting. It's a chapter in my life because I moved from Microsoft to Google and when I was doing that, I suddenly became responsible for a very large app, YouTube app on iOS. At Microsoft, I was figuring out every single detail and how something should work, writing out specs for everything. And at Google, I couldn't possibly by myself figure out all those details. And instead, I had to figure out kind of like how to make sure everyone understood the problem that we're trying to solve so that everyone can make the best decisions by themselves. And so that's something that, you know, it's really core to how I think today, which is how do you define the problem really well? How do you do the storytelling to make sure that people are motivated to solve that problem so they can make the great best decisions themselves? Uber was at a really interesting time. It was back in 2014, 2015. It was one of many startups that were really exploring the intersection of the physical and digital world, especially as mobile
00:05:42 · S0, S2, S3, S4, S5
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