Tanya Khakbaz's guest appearances

Tanya Khakbaz

Questions w/ Shane Mac

The Product Marketing Experts 

Mike Berger

Nir Eyal

David Marquet

Lewis Howes

Brad Feld

Simon Sinek

Shane Mac

Meghan Keaney Anderson

Jason Fried

Chris Mills

Ryan Carson

Chase Jarvis

Anthony Kennada

Robert Stephens

Jonathan Fields

OwlTail

Krithika Muthukumar

Stripe

Connect with Krithika Muthukumar here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krithix/Connect with Tanya Khakbaz here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-khakbaz-a725732/Join them on Sharebird here: https://sharebird.com/profile/krithika-muthukumar-1 and https://sharebird.com/profile/tanya-khakbazQuestions we cover on this episode:1.     Tell me about Stripe - Krithika you’ve been there for 7 year, right? What is stripe all about and how are things going?2.     So Stripe is not exactly sexy Martech or fancy consumer facing software, how do you describe it?3.     How do you simplify technology like that? How do you understand it first of all, then how do you communicate it in a way that people will understand?4.     What were the challenges in the early days? What was your focus? Especially as the only marketer, how did you prioritize?5.     Tanya, you came in right as Stripe was hitting an inflection point of scale. How have you tackled that challenge and with the type of scale you all are at, what are the biggest challenges of your product marketing team?8.     [Tanya] With a developer product, does Stripe value marketing? How do you earn that seat at the table? 9.     What’s that next chapter of PMM at Stripe as you look ahead 2-3 years? 11.  What skills does it take to be successful as a PMM at stripe?12.  What’s your advice to other Product marketing leaders in industries that may be regulated or not that “interesting or sexy”?13.  What’s your outlook on the career of Product Marketing? Is it a good place to be right now?14.  What’s one nuance about the evolution of Product Marketing at a hyperscale company that you only know now because you understand it deeply? 

Connect with Krithika Muthukumar here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/krithix/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/krithix/</a> Connect with Tanya Khakbaz here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-khakbaz-a725732/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-khakbaz-a725732/</a> Join them on Sharebird here: <a href="https://sharebird.com/profile/krithika-muthukumar-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sharebird.com/profile/krithika-muthukumar-1</a> and <a href="https://sharebird.com/profile/tanya-khakbaz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sharebird.com/profile/tanya-khakbaz</a>Questions we cover on this episode:1.     Tell me about Stripe - Krithika you’ve been there for 7 year, right? What is stripe all about and how are things going?2.     So Stripe is not exactly sexy Martech or fancy consumer facing software, how do you describe it?3.     How do you simplify technology like that? How do you understand it first of all, then how do you communicate it in a way that people will understand?4.     What were the challenges in the early days? What was your focus? Especially as the only marketer, how did you prioritize?5.     Tanya, you came in right as Stripe was hitting an inflection point of scale. How have you tackled that challenge and with the type of scale you all are at, what are the biggest challenges of your product marketing team?8.     [Tanya] With a developer product, does Stripe value marketing? How do you earn that seat at the table? 9.     What’s that next chapter of PMM at Stripe as you look ahead 2-3 years? 11.  What skills does it take to be successful as a PMM at stripe?12.  What’s your advice to other Product marketing leaders in industries that may be regulated or not that “interesting or sexy”?13.  What’s your outlook on the career of Product Marketing? Is it a good place to be right now?14.  What’s one nuance about the evolution of Product Marketing at a hyperscale company that you only know now because you understand it deeply?

Product Marketing at a Hypergrowth Company (Stripe) with Krithika Muthukumar and Tanya Khakbaz, Product Marketing at Stripe 

In this interview with Tanya, we cover many topics from harnessing your passion to start a business, identifying “the magic” of your product that will lead to scale, and managing the work/life/parent balance, and the global shift towards a “skills-based” economy.

Tanya Khakbaz with Shane Mac