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Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)

2024-05-26 · 102 min · 45 entities

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Episode description as stored
Bangaly Kaba was an early growth PM at Facebook, head of growth at Instagram, and VP of Product at Instacart and is currently Director of Product at YouTube overseeing a global team working on creator monetization. Bangaly has also been a growth advisor to dozens of companies, including Twitter, on the board of multiple companies, and is an active angel investor. In our conversation, we discuss: • A simple framework for choosing where to work and what to work on • The importance of “understand work” • The “adjacent users” theory and how it can help you drive growth • Advice for coaching product managers • Invaluable lessons from his time at Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube • Much more — Brought to you by: • Uizard —AI-powered prototyping for visionary product leaders • Mercury —The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Find the transcript and references at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/frameworks-for-growing-your-career-bangaly-kaba — Where to find Bangaly Kaba: • X: https://twitter.com/iambangaly • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iambangaly/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iambangaly/ — Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • X: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Bangaly’s background (06:31) Choosing where to work and what to work on (08:39) The impact factor (10:53) Evaluating the environment (15:53) The manager component (18:27) The skills part of the equation (23:49) Advice on finding a mentor (25:42) The power of “understand work” (31:17) Operationalizing understand work (37:55) Balancing understand work (41:25) Managing complex change (45:26) Effective management of product managers (51:35) The role of product managers as coaches and team leaders (54:52) Driving growth through flywheels and value proposition (01:03:14) Understanding adjacent users (01:08:41) The role of partnerships and SEO in Instagram’s early growth (01:16:08) The secret behind Instagram’s growth (01:25:37) Lessons from Facebook (01:29:15) Failure corner (01:31:58) Lightning round — Referenced: • Impact = Environment x Skills: How to Make Career Decisions: https://www.reforge.com/blog/how-to-make-career-decisions • Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/thinking-beyond-frameworks-casey • Casey Winters’s blog: https://caseyaccidental.com/ • Ben Thompson’s newsletter: https://stratechery.com/about/ • Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/elena-verna-on-why-every-company • George Lee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geolee/ • Bangaly Kaba: The Path to 1 Billion: Lessons Learned from Growing Instagram—CXL LIVE 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ZHlb6kj_E • What Is ‘Dogfooding’?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/business/dogfooding.html • Bloom’s taxonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy • Kevin Systrom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinsystrom/ • Mike Krieger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/ • LeBron James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James • Kobe Bryant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant •  Mike Krzyzewski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krzyzewski • John Calipari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calipari • Stripe: https://stripe.com/ • Chief: https://chief.com/ • Jobs to be done framework: https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90 • The Adjacent User: https://brianbalfour.com/quick-takes/the-adjacent-user • How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got • Alex Zhu on LinkedIn: ht