Vikrama Dhiman is presently the Head of Mobility Products at Gojek and has been a builder for more than a decade across firms like Bharti Softbank, WizIQ, and Zeta- a Directi company.

Vikrama says that having such becoming a Product Leader today has come at the expense of making several mistakes. He’s grown from making them, and gained an almost anticipatory sixth sense in prioritizing and responding to challenges - a critical skill for all founders, PMs and builders alike.

Here’s what we talk about on this short yet insightful episode:

* 1:07- Launching Gojek in Singapore, the challenge of localization

* 7:15- Hiring strategies and measuring PM competence

* 14:50- Shift from glorified Project Managers as Product Managers

* 16:40- Anticipation vs adaptation - being agile

* 19:20- Mistaking features for product strategy

* 22:30- A politically incorrect rapid fire

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