Join Amanda Silver, our first PM guest to learn more about how she accelerated her career with customer understanding and how she harnesses a sense of mission to stay motivated to achieve more.
[01:08] – Amanda’s roles through the years
[03:45] – modern PM – driving culture and anthropology
[05:06] – bringing customer into the product
[07:07] – career pivot – searching for opportunities with cloud developer
[10:50] – figuring out how to bring the entire team to become more customer focused
[13:30] – figuring out how to empower her teams
[15:30] – PM’ing for Chakra and Typescript – serendipity
[19:50] – Moving from specialist to generalist
[22:40] – What drives her career? Finding motivation in career and making the world better through developers
[25:08] – Amplifying devs
[26:52] – How did she get started? Amanda’s "nerd family"
[28:37] – finding CS
[29:53] – why PM and academics vs industry vs startups
[35:15] – best career advice : mission and purpose
Steve Carroll (msft)
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