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Anil Sabharwal: Vice President, Product @ Google (Build/Led Photos, Chrome & Drive)
Overview
Rare interview with Google's VP of Product. We cover his Indian, Canadian & Aussie connection + Building THREE of Google's nine Billion user products - Google Chrome, Google Photos and Google Drive!
Hosted by Vidit Agarwal, Founder of Curiosity Center and The High Flyers Podcast.
It’s now time to explore your curiosity.
Show notes
In this episode #118 w Anil Sabharwal learn about:
- Sunrise in Canada with Indian roots
- Reflections on his early influences and leaving home at age 17
- Highlights / Learnings from 10-15 year career prior to joining Google
- Moving to Australia in 2006
- Achieving momentum in early days at Google
- Unlocking skills working across new markets, segments and industries in building billion user products and becoming globally recognised product leader
- Building Google Photos into a billion user product
- Leadership responsibility across product, design and engineering
- Promotion to managing Google Chrome, ChromeOS and Communications
- Product DNA differences between Photos and Chrome
- Transition from Chrome to a blank canvas and prioritising values
- Why is the product function king (or queen) at Google?
- Key metrics to monitor in your product function
- Make a few people very happy vs a lot of people semi happy
- Success at 50
It’s now time to explore your curiosity, please enjoy!
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The High Flyers Podcast features in-depth interviews with the world’s most influential figures in business, tech, finance, government and sport. Launched in 2020, it has ranked in the global top ten for past three years, with listeners in 27 countries and over 200+ episodes released, and featured in Forbes, Daily Telegraph, and at SXSW.
Our guests include -- Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Anil Sabharwal (Global VP, Product at Google), Jason Collins (Head of BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Stevie Case (Chief Revenue Officer, Vanta), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Jean-Michel Lemieux (CTO, Shopify + Atlassian), Sweta Mehra (EGM, NAB; ex CMO, ANZ), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Sam Sicilia (Chief Investment Officer, Hostplus), Craig Tiley (CEO, Tennis Australia), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Niki Scevak (Co-Founder, Blackbird Ventures), Mike Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), Trent Cotchin (3x Premiership Winning Captain, Richmond FC), Peter Varghese (Secretary/Chief, Foreign Affairs, Australian Government), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Matteo Franceschetti (CEO, Eight Sleep) and more.
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