#75: Chandrika Maheshwari: Startups, San Francisco, Fintech, Product Management

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Chapters

00:00-Startups in San Francisco

05:45-Homelessness and Drugs in SF

14:13-Recap of the last decade

15:26-Offsites and "growing up" at Bain

23:00-Product Marketing at Google

30:00-Biggest takeaway from Google

32:15-What is Marketing

38:00-Picking MIT for Bschool

50:00-Challenges during Bschool

56:03-Good & Bad reasons to do Bschool

1:01:00-Role as a Product Manager

1:11:00-Pandemic Growth at Docusign

1:16:30-Entering Fintech at Plaid

1:23:00-Starting and Vision for Pull

1:37:00-Shutting down and lessons

1:47:00-Navigating hardship through the pandemic

1:55:50-Shifts in belief and advice to younger self

2:01:20-Question for Reuben

2:05:55-Wrapping up

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