Founder Interview Video
How Symba Reached 20 Employees and 10 Engineers While Rebuilding Its Product from the Ground Up (Interview with Co-Founder and CTO Nikita Gupta)
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Symba Overview
- 0:26Audience Poll and Team Structure
- 1:46Symba's Product Journey from 2019 to 2022
- 3:05Offshore Engineering Team and Early Misalignment
- 3:32What Did Not Work: Reactive Product Development
- 5:30All-Hands Approach and Lessons Learned
- 5:42Identifying Bottlenecks Between Product and Engineering
- 8:09Building the Value Circle and Product Strategy
- 9:51Fostering Empathy and Lowering Ego
- 11:08Sharing Gong Recordings with Engineers
- 12:19Feature Prioritization and Two-Steps-Ahead Planning
- 13:34Results: Four Months on Track with New Roadmap
- 14:09Q and A: How to Set Deadlines
- 15:52CTO Involvement in Deadline Setting
- 16:57Closing and Applause