How Shopify rages against meetings | Kaz Nejatian (COO) from Behind the Craft

How Shopify rages against meetings | Kaz Nejatian (COO)

24 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2024 at 2:27 pm.

] Nobody ever dreamed of sitting in meetings

] The difference between crafters and managers

] Traditional career ladders just don't work

] Our job is to rage against being a big company

] Strategy is the least meaningful aspect of product

] People misunderstand how great products are built

] We're not an OKR company

] Why there are so few good product managers

] Operation Chaos Monkey to remove meetings

] Why managers need to value their personal craft time

] Why there are always no meeting rooms available

] How to reduce meetings on your calendar

] Just because someone else does it is a bad reason

] The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing

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Kaz Neyatian is the Chief Operating Officer of Shopify.

Kaz and I spoke about about:

1. Why traditional career ladders are broken

2. Why strategy is the least important part of building products

3. Why Shopify canceled all recurring meetings.

I think this interview will feel like therapy if you’ve worked at big tech companies.

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Where to find Kaz:

X: https://twitter.com/CanadaKaz

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasranejatian/

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