Tamar Yehoshua
President of Product & Technology at Glean
Tamar Yehoshua is President of Product and Technology at Glean, previously CPO at Slack (through IPO and Salesforce acquisition), leader of Google Search product/engineering, and VP at Amazon A9.com. She serves on boards including ServiceNow.
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Episode Summary
Tamar Yehoshua draws on experience at Glean, Slack, Google Search, and Amazon to share why your engineering partnership is the most important factor in PM success and why companies don't have to be run well to win. She shares lessons from Jeff Bezos, Stewart Butterfield, and Marc Benioff, plus practical insights on building AI products where outputs are non-deterministic and unpredictable.
Leadership Principles
- → Make sure you have a good engineering partner — great ideas with no one to build them go nowhere
- → Align on roles and responsibilities so teams don't play mom against dad
- → Companies don't have to be run well to win — but they do have to be run well to endure
Notable Quotes
"Make sure you go somewhere where you have a good engineering partner. If you have great ideas but you can't get them built, then you go nowhere."
— On the most important criterion when evaluating a new PM role
"You don't want people in the organization asking mom and dad and getting different opinions and playing one against the other. That doesn't work."
— On why PM-engineering alignment is essential for cross-functional teams
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