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The Skip Podcast

Nikhyl Singhal
Product Management
Career Development
Artificial Intelligence
Big Tech
Compensation
Startup Founding
Leadership
Work-Life Balance
Tech Industry
Burnout
Personal Branding
Job Market
Meta
Ambiguity In Work
Small Tech
Venture-Backed Startups
Tech Startups
Equity Compensation
Job Interviews
Founder Mode

The Skip podcast helps tech professionals get ahead in their career. It's hosted by Nikhyl Singhal, a three-time founder, CPO, and product executive at Meta and Google. Nikhyl has helped scale four of the most successful tech products ever: Facebook, Credit Karma, Google Photos, and Google Hangouts. He now runs Skip Coach, a career service powered by the world's top CPO community, and has coached ... more

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In this episode, Tulsee Doshi, who leads product for Google's Gemini models, joins me for the fourth conversation in the "Inside PM" series. Tulsee has spent eleven years at Google, moving through Search and YouTube before taking on product for the G... more

In this episode, Jagjit Chawla, the VP who runs Facebook's Feed and Reels, returns to see how his predictions from our June conversation have landed. Back in the spring, he described Meta as a company racing to turn PMs into builders. Since then, Met... more

In this episode, Saswat Panigrahi, Waymo's CPO, joins me for the third conversation in the "Inside PM" series. Saswat joined Waymo in 2016, back when it was still Google's self-driving car project and the entire product team was fewer than five peopl... more

This is the next episode in a series on what product management becomes when the AI hype meets real constraints. I sat down with three CPOs living about a year ahead of the rest of us: Sharmeen Chapp, Midjourney's first-ever product hire; Jiaona Zhan... more

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Recent Guests

Tulsee Doshi
Leads product for Gemini Frontier models at Google
Google
Episode: Inside Gemini: How Google Runs Product for Its Model
Jagjit Chawla
Runs Facebook's Feed and Reels; returning guest
Meta
Episode: What the Past Year Taught Meta
Saswat Panigrahi
Product leader at Waymo and member of the Skip community
Waymo
Episode: To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Sharmeen Chapp
Chief Product Officer at Midjourney
Midjourney
Episode: Lessons From Three Product Leaders Living in the Future
Henrik Berggren
Head of Product and Design at Mutiny
Mutiny
Episode: Lessons From Three Product Leaders Living in the Future
Kevin Yien
Product leader at Stripe, expert on PM, AI, and organizational design
Stripe
Episode: Inside PM at Stripe: What Comes After "Become a Builder"?
Dana Ingraham
Former Airbnb Supply Side Products lead, now at Harvey AI
Harvey AI
Episode: 10 Job-Search Rules That Just Broke
Briana Ings
Former Snapped CPO, now at Loom/Atlassian
Atlassian (Loom)
Episode: 10 Job-Search Rules That Just Broke
Pei-Chin Wang
Former Modern Animal technology lead, founder of new venture
Founder (and previous Modern Animal)
Episode: 10 Job-Search Rules That Just Broke

Hosts

Nikhyl Singhal
Host of The Skip Podcast, Skip Coach, and technology product leader with experience at Meta and Google.
Carly Malatskey
Co-host joining episodes to discuss community questions and product leadership topics.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 215 ratings
  • Essential advice to pressure test most important decisions in your career

    Nikhyl has an exceptional ability to zoom out and frame advice on crucial macro trends while also being incredibly sharp and practical with no fluff.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sweeboo McGillicutty
    United Statesa year ago
  • Best career podcast

    One of the most valuable career podcasts that’s out there. I love the dynamic between Carly and Nikhyl! They’re great and it’s helped me level up in my own career.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    linda6254
    United Statesa year ago
  • Very well said

    Thank you so much for this very valuable podcast

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    MDA_d
    United States2 years ago
  • you’ll have to revisit these episodes

    The personal brand and the Burnout episodes changed my perspective a lot. The only suggestion I’ll give to the listeners is to come back and listen to the episodes a few times as I felt I had more hidden realisations like layers of onions after a 2nd or 3rd time listening to these.

    Absolute goldmines. Thanks, Skip team!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    debelop3d
    United Kingdom2 years ago
  • Level up Your Product Career - An Indispensable Podcast

    Nikhyl brings thoughtful, actionable advice to advance and grow in your product management career. He’s the manager we all wish we had. Amazing!!!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sbdmusings
    United States2 years ago

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Fresh takes on career moves and PM leadership that feel grounded in real coaching sessions.
Listeners praise practical, high-signal coaching and candid guest insights.
The podcast is consistently described as actionable and relevant for advancing tech careers.

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#232
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#107
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Apple Podcasts
#132
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Apple Podcasts
#152
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Apple Podcasts
#181
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#184
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To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Q: What should product leaders today learn from Waymo about applying AI to product management?
Leaders should focus on articulating what good looks like, building a learning culture, and keeping a balance between long-horizon vision and actionable short-term milestones, while fostering integrity, agency, and empathy in teams.
To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Q: How did you approach safety and the question of whether autonomous is better than human driving?
Waymo accumulated vast miles of data and demonstrated significant safety improvements (noting magnitudes like 16x safer in certain metrics) to build a compelling case for autonomy while acknowledging the complexities of real-world deployment.
To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Q: What leadership traits did you find most durable at Waymo as the company scaled?
Competence, courage, and compassion emerged as core leadership traits, enabling teams to navigate uncertainty, pause launches when necessary, and support colleagues through setbacks.
To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Q: How did you measure progress when there was no consumer product yet?
Progress was tied to tangible milestones and a persistent belief in the mission, supported by cross-functional work that brought hardware, software, and data together to push the product forward despite long horizons.
To Invent Waymo, They Had to Reinvent PM
Q: What was it like in the early days when Waymo was just a Google self-driving car project?
The team operated with a strong belief that autonomous driving could dramatically reduce road fatalities, and wired early datasets, dashboards, and tooling directly from the floor to the cars, emphasizing hands-on, end-to-end ownership.

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The show centers on career navigation for technology professionals, especially product leaders. It frequently covers AI-driven product strategies, PM evolution at large tech organizations, hiring and interview dynamics, compensation and career strategy, and managing career transitions in an AI-enabled landscape. Unique angles include live discussions with senior leaders from Meta, Stripe, Netflix, and OpenAI–often framed around practical frameworks, real-world case studies, and candid conversations about governance, speed, and personal balance. The format blends coaching-style insights with panel-style debates, sponsorship integrations, and a focus on actionable takeaways for listeners aiming to level up in tech leadership or engineering pr... more

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2. Jagjit Chawla
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4. Sharmeen Chapp
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