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Mark

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Mayur Kamat (Mayur Kamat) is CPO at N26, ex-Head of Product at Binance, and built and scaled products at Google (Gmail Mobile, Hangouts), Microsoft, and travel unicorn agoda. Mayur shares endless wild stories and a lot of unconventional product insights I've never heard before. There's something in this conversation for everyone. Some of my biggest takeaways: 1. Binance’s leadership met every single day (often at 11 p.m.) so no decision waited more than 24 hours. Tight feedback loops beat elaborate planning. 2. Founder CZ kept about 55 direct reports so individual contributors were never more than one level away from the CEO. This forced leaders to live in the details and empowered ICs to “own the whole cell.” 3. Mayur literally moved his desk to whichever team had the biggest 10x upside—or downside—at that moment. Apply the same lens: growth and compliance issues usually move the needle fastest in fintech. 4. Treat “strategy” as a hypothesis pipeline: ship small, measure fast, double down on what the data proves. Tools like Statsig, Gemini summaries, and cohort dashboards make this possible at scale. 5. Work at companies that compound learning. High-growth environments (Google in the early mobile era, Agoda’s A/B culture, Binance’s hyperscale, N26’s pan-EU banking) give you daily reps and a powerful alumni network—worth far more than early salary bumps. 6. Optimize for your superpowers, not your gaps. Identify what energizes you—via StrengthsFinder-style assessments or honest reflection—and choose roles where those strengths decide success. Early in your career, ignore compensation differentials that don’t accelerate this fit. 7. Fast, reversible decisions beat “perfect” ones. In most product calls there’s no right vs. wrong—only slow vs. fast. Move quickly, learn, and pivot; reserve heavyweight processes for bets that could kill the company or the user. 8. Fintech creates exceptional PMs. Banking/financial products involve existential tradeoffs daily, requiring exceptional stakeholder management and decision-making skills. Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 WorkOS — Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs: 🏆 Paragon — Ship every SaaS integration your customers want: 🏆 Vanta — Automate compliance. Simplify security:

Lenny Rachitsky

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ONE MAN RESPONSIBLE | Who is responsible for half of Bengaluru City's traffic woes? Can there be one single person responsible for it? Yes. Read on. After exposing the hidden 200Cr house of Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳, in his own name, he accepted that the house belongs to him. Now he and his followers have challenged us to talk about development. So we decided to talk about Rajeev's development in Bengaluru for 18 years. In 2010 the then BJP Govt came up with a signal free corridor from Sirsi circle to Agara. As per the plan, a 120 Cr signal free corridor from St. John's signal in Koramangala to Agara was given tender and the work started. It involved 2 underpasses and two flyovers. One underpass at Water tank signal, another at Wipro park junction and two flyovers one at Krupanidhi junction and another at Jakkasandra. And then Rajeev ji arrived. He declared that the project is unscientific and used the resident welfare associations to fight BDA. He declared that it is corruption of BJP, because he was with Janata Dal then. They filed a PIL and killed the project. The roads were dug up for the underpass, which many people might still remember. Finally Siddaramiah Govt came and widened and fixed the road. It still takes around 45-60 mins to cover this 5km stretch in peak hours. After Modi came, he switched sides to BJP. He then tried to kill the Steel Flyover project. We've covered that in detail in this thread below. So, when you are stuck in traffic in Bangalore, especially in North and South Bangalore, the face to remember is Rajeev Chandrasekhar's. We did this video, because he says he did a lot of development as an MP, without disclosing what exactly it is. Other than his business interests, there is nothing he did as an MP. KPCC General Secretary Nisha Soman Thettayil explains:

Congress Kerala

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The simplest hustle I've seen this year. He pulled $1,800 in 5 minutes using Claude Meet Gianni. A regular dude with a laptop, sitting in his bedroom. No courses to sell, no team behind him, no fancy setup. What he does is honestly stupid simple. He opens Google Maps in his city. Scrolls around. Looks for one specific thing. Local businesses with great reviews but no website. Roofers. Plumbers. Landscapers. HVAC guys. Tree services. Half of them are still running their entire operation off a phone number and word of mouth. In the video he finds Aspen Roofing in Colorado Springs. 4.5 stars, 8 reviews, zero web presence. That's his target. He copies the company name. Pulls a few of their best Google reviews. Pastes everything into Claude with one prompt. «Build me a sexy, luxurious, high-converting website for this business. Use these reviews to understand their strengths.» Claude writes the entire site from scratch. He drops the code into Lovable, clicks Publish, and a real working website is live in one click. Hero section reads «Colorado's Premier Roofing Experience.» CTA button says «Get Your Free Roof Inspection.» Now the fun part. He emails or DMs the owner with the link. Says «I built you something, take a look.» The owner sees a professional site that already represents his brand. Buys it on the spot for $1,000 to $2,000. Plugs in his domain. Done. One website. 5 minutes of work. $1,800 in the pocket. And there are millions of local businesses in the US still running without a site. He's just stamping them out one after another.

winkle.

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🚩Breaking News : Finance heavy hitter Craig Stobo has been announced by NZ First as a candidate in Botany, the seat currently held by Christopher Luxon. Stobo will be on the list. He brings a serious record in finance, especially superannuation and financial regulation: He built BT Funds Management, led the tax review that produced the PIE regime that KiwiSaver is built on, and later chaired the Financial Markets Authority. He was removed from that role at the FMA after an official review found his public commentary, including on the Treaty Principles, breached the political neutrality expected of an independent regulator. In plainer terms, he was taken out of the FMA for refusing to bow down to Māorification Mumbo Jumbo. * He created NZ’s municipal bond market. Stobo chaired the LGFA establishment board and has been inaugural chair since 2011. It is now the largest NZ-dollar bond issuer after the Crown, with about $25 billion of AAA bonds and almost every council as a voluntary borrower. That is a rare piece of financial-market plumbing: cheaper long-term money for local infrastructure without a Crown guarantee. Craigs business experience completely pulls down the pants of any MP currently in the house. Track record : He has built a funds business from scratch. He co-launched BT Funds Management NZ in 1992 and ran it as CEO until 2004, taking AUM to about $3 billion making it under his guidance, NZ’s largest and most successful Funds management company. He sits right at the intersection of city balance sheets and markets. He was a founding director of the Auckland Future Fund, set up to invest the proceeds of Auckland Council’s airport share sale (~$1.3 billion) rather than spend the capital. Rather than just sitting on boards Craig has got actual outcomes. He chaired Precinct Properties from incorporation in 2010, changing it from a unit trust to a company, attracting foreign investment that enabled the company to be listed as PCT on the NZX. He chaired Fliway a family owned logistics company, over seeing its scaling through its NZX IPO and later sale to NZ Post for $55 Million. He chaired AIG New Zealand from licensing in 2012 to 2022. Taking over after the global giant was wounded badly during the GFC and building a legitimate local arm that is profitable and still trading. At NZ Windfarms he oversaw the first consented windfarm repower in New Zealand (about 21 months, versus the seven-years plus, common in the sector). Craig holds First-class honours in economics at Otago, Milner Prize at Waitaki Boys, Wharton AMP. Diplomat for both NZ and Australia (seconded to DFAT in Canberra, including Middle East work, involved in Hawke–Keating deregulation in the 80’s ). Economist at DFC/Zealcorp, then Bankers Trust NZ on the rates desk — heading the same dealing room where a young John Key made his name in FX. Craig Stobo is one of the few New Zealanders with such a highly credible CV who has both written the tax architecture of managed funds, which helped build Kiwi saver and built the vehicle that funds capex for most councils in NZ. He’s an excellent addition to NZFirst to help us turn this country around. Craig Stobo was also in attendance at the anti mandate protest in Wellington, and was mandated out his job for refusing to take the jab. Listen to the incredible excerpt below where he discuss how the business a political elite have too much power and have hurt people for far too long.

Holyhekatuiteka

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Damage Control From a Mayor Who Has Everything to Fear The national grooming gang inquiry has not yet begun. But the political effort to control it already has. As predicted, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham publicly rebuked critics of the inquiry's new chair, urging them to stop "reading politics into it" and to "let the inquiry do its business." Damage control from a man who has everything to fear from what this inquiry might expose. Burnham is not some outside observer. He is neck-deep in this scandal's recent history. As mayor, he commissioned, promoted and defended the Oldham Assurance Review. A whitewash sold to the public as independent but designed from the start to avoid the most serious evidence of institutional failure. That review was not botched incompetence. It was a cover up. Look at what it actually did: - it cleared political figures of wrongdoing - it refused to interview a single Pakistani grooming gang survivor - it accepted political explanations without testing them against evidence - it concluded there was no cover up despite confirming children were gang raped, public officials and politicians knew what was taking place, and information was hidden from parents. There is no plausible explanation for clearing politicians while excluding the most relevant survivors other than protection. Burnham knows exactly what he faces. He commissioned a review that cleared his allies while silencing survivors. He defended a process that excluded Pakistani rape gang victims. His review was used to block any further inquiry. Now he is desperately trying to manage expectations before the real investigation begins. Burnham thinks containing the inquiry's scope will protect him. He is wrong. The evidence of his role in commissioning institutional cover-up is already established. The only question is whether this inquiry will have the independence to follow where that evidence leads and call Burnham to testify under oath. Burnham's intervention is not defending justice. It is defending himself. And he has every reason to be afraid. And for those that have asked. All Andy Burnham has to do is name the time and place. I will present the evidence of his role in the cover up of the industrial scale gang rape of children to his face if he dares face me. _________ I’m Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Before that, I spent over a decade safeguarding children and protecting communities from extremists. My work is free because the truth must circulate. But truth without numbers is easy to crush. The government does not fear facts. It fears scale. Starmer and the Labour Party fear thousands reading, sharing, and backing the same work because numbers mean witnesses, pressure, and consequences. That’s why I am blacklisted by the legacy media. That's why this matters. 🔴 Subscribe to the newsletter. It’s free. Every subscriber is a number they can’t erase. Every reader widens the circle they can’t control. 👉 Subscribe or support here: If you can afford it, please support for 75p a week (£3/month or £30/year). Not for perks. Not for access. But because numbers with backing become power. A few supporters can be ignored. Thousands cannot. This is how this campaign survive. This is how we see this through. This is how voices like ours stops being managed and starts being feared. 🔴 Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 No sponsors. No parties. No institutions to lean on. Just numbers. Growing fast enough that shutting this down becomes impossible. We don’t need everyone. We need enough. We need you. – Raja Miah MBE

Raja Miah

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