Building smarter product teams

Vrushali Paunikar Chief Product Officer, Carta

Key Quote

Great strategy is the function of fast iteration.

Session Description

As Chief Product Officer, Vrushali Paunikar has been a key part of Carta's transformation into the leading platform that powers the private capital markets. In this session, she will share her process for rallying product teams around real customer needs, why speed of learning is the key metric for product teams, and how AI is changing the way product teams work.

Notes

The atomic unit of Carta the organization is the problem. That one idea has shaped how we hire, how we prioritize, how we use AI, and how we learn.

Problems not jobs

Orient people around problems, not jobs.

The principal-agent problem

The principal-agent problem arises when one person (the “agent”) makes decisions and/or takes actions on behalf of, or impacts, another person (the principal).

This situation introduces the potential for conflicts of interest between the principal and agent

A classic principal-agent problem is a company (the principal) and an agent (employee)

Job

a list of tasks that somebody does for someone else

Job Description