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I am a Product Manager working on YouTube Ads. In the past I have led multiple Google…
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Swati Sharma shared thisWatch Coachella 2023 live from California, exclusively on YouTube! The biggest music festival in the world, with 6 channels live, bringing a wide variety of music, April 14-16 and April 21-23. Also, this is the first time that an #Indian singer #DiljitDosanjh takes the stage! My team at Google works on bringing these live events on YouTube! Tune in to enjoy Coachella 2023 for free - https://lnkd.in/gQTNpneg #coachella #youtubelive #google
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Swati Sharma posted thisI am excited to join the #YouTubeAds team at Google, and look forward to going back into the exciting world of AdTech! For the last 5 years, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time building billing & identity products at #GoogleCloud, alongside some of the smartest & heartiest people I have ever met! Grateful for all the camaraderie & learning :) #newbeginning #youtube
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Swati Sharma shared thisReally thankful for the privilege to be a speaker at the Google Cloud Summit in Sydney last week, where I spoke about Cloud Identity as a product, and how enterprises can leverage the power of Google's technology to improve their productivity & collaboration #googlecloud #lifeatgoogle #googlecloudsummit
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Swati Sharma reacted on thisSwati Sharma reacted on this*CAREER UPDATE* It has been some time since my last post, but I have a significant update to share. Last month, I concluded a rewarding chapter at Amazon that spanned 4 years (and 4 days) across Amazon Pay India and Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios. Reflecting on this journey, I am grateful for the growth I experienced and the learning I had along the way, starting as the lead for Amazon Pay products before transitioning to lead Product and Storefront Marketing for Amazon Prime Video for India & AUNZ. These years were deeply meaningful, marking my evolution into leading marketing for tech-first products and has been a wind beneath my wings; giving me the confidence to handle any challenge. I want to express my sincere gratitude to those who supported me along the way. To my first manager and mentor, Neha Gupta Mahatme, thank you for your invaluable guidance, for instilling the confidence in me to make tough decisions, and for always pushing me beyond my comfort zone and setting me up for success. I am equally grateful to my team at Amazon Pay (Harshita, Divya & Sagar) for always having my back. Thanks to Shilangi Mukherji and Josie Law for the opportunity to lead Product and Storefront Marketing for Prime Video. Thanks Gaurav Bhasin for your mentorship and support as I settled into that role and for being the kind of leader people don’t just work with but learn from. And to my team mates, and colleagues whom I have worked and interacted with, it has truly been a privilege to work alongside such brilliant minds. So what's next? Well, I look at this new opportunity as a 'platform shift' in my professional journey, where I will be bridging my background in retail, E-commerce and tech marketing with the burgeoning creator ecosystem in India. I’m stepping into a role that sits at the intersection of technology, commerce and community. I look forward to share more as I hit the ground running. Stay tuned. :) #NewBeginning #CareerUpdate #JobChange #NewChapter #CareerGrowth #WorkLife #Grateful #Milestone #CareerJourney Indian School of Business ISB Alumni Association
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Swati Sharma liked thisSwati Sharma liked this9 years, countless memories, and one big "thank you" to my Google family. It was an honor to work and grow alongside such brilliant people. I’m thrilled to share that I started a new role this week at Netflix leading Global Product Solutions. So grateful for this opportunity. New energy, new team, new challenges—let's go! 🍿
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Swati Sharma reacted on thisSwati Sharma reacted on thisI left Amazon in Mar'26 after almost 12 years. I had the privilege of leading geographically distributed teams across Fashion and Grocery that dream big and carry on with persistence. We took on audacious goals and asked ourselves "what needs to be true to make this happen?" I leave fulfilled, having experienced the joy of leaving behind a legacy that outlived my tenure. Amazon is a leadership bootcamp — here are my top lessons for building high performing teams. 1. Org design is not a constraint — it's a chessboard. The leaders who create the most impact don't wait for the org chart to give them permission. They orchestrate. My own trajectory step-changed when I stopped thinking about reporting lines and started thinking about organisation-wide influence. Great leaders make the structure work for them. 2. Social capital is a leadership asset. Earn Trust at Amazon means "leaders don't think their team's body odour smells of perfume". Building genuine relationships across levels and functions is strategic. As a decision-maker navigating high-stakes calls daily, trusted peers who could weigh in quickly was the difference between good decisions and great ones. 3. It's okay to be misunderstood. The best leaders I worked with didn't optimise only for consensus. They had the courage of conviction — making the right call for the customer and the business without compromising on collaboration. Comfort with being misunderstood is a mark of leadership maturity. 4. Unlearn to learn. Some of my best decisions came in rooms where I was the least technical person at the table. Not being the expert forces you to ask better questions and listen differently. The risk is that we unconsciously cap our own potential by overvaluing what we already know — I may have done 5 Black Fridays in a row but the next one will still have new learnings! 5. Build systems, not just solutions. The fastest path to scale is never linear. The leaders who accelerate growth build playbooks, democratise knowledge, and create infrastructure that lets teams compound wins without starting from scratch. Builder's mindset = going from "how do we solve this?" to "how do we make this solvable at scale?" On my last day, my almost 5 year old, by far my biggest cheerleader and toughest critic, accompanied me to bid farewell. Just a week before this picture was taken, he was under the weather and suggested I order his nasal spray from Amz rather than the local pharmacy because "Amazon is faster, Mum." He then informed me, with complete confidence, that Amazon could also deliver babies faster than hospitals. Customers are, indeed, divinely discontent 😊 Thanks to my managers at Amazon, Rahat Patel, Naveesh Paruchuri, Natali Stojovic, Daniel Silverfield, Avi Samtani, Liz Gebhard, Rakhshan Zahid, Dave Brittain, Kate Nicholls, Vera Murton Harrington and mentors Alix Boulnois, Nishi Mahajan, Matt Birch, Wolfgang Eckert, Javier Rosales for helping me with the steepest learning curve of my career.
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Swati Sharma liked thisSwati Sharma liked thisExactly 6 months ago, we decided to rebuild Spendflo. Not iterate. Not add features. Rebuild. Most people thought we were crazy. Honestly, some days we did too. But we'd spent 4 years doing procurement for hundreds of companies. We had the customer context. And every single week, we watched smart people do work that should never have been a human's job. But the real wake-up moment was when customers stopped asking for better software altogether. CFOs started saying: "I don't need a better tool. I need to not hire three more people." Companies were hitting headcount limits. Facing cost pressure. Procurement teams were stretched so thin that growth itself had become the problem. And we realised we'd been solving the wrong thing. Those 6 months of rebuilding were some of the most satisfying of my career. We had conversations that were uncomfortable. We had weeks where we genuinely didn't know if we were building the right thing. But we kept coming back to one belief: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲. A workforce that wakes up every morning with context on your vendors, your spend, your contracts and invoices, your history and gets to work. That's what we've been building. That's what we're launching today. Flo - the AI procurement workforce. The first to run a fully autonomous cycle from intake to pay. Our vision is simple: the people on your procurement and finance team should never have to touch a task that doesn't require human judgment. The coordination, the chasing, the matching, the reviewing - Flo owns all of it. Your team focuses on the decisions that actually move the business. We built this on something no one else has - proprietary benchmark data from thousands of real vendor negotiations and full intake-to-pay context in a single model. Flo doesn't just move tasks along. It acts on the kind of context a point solution never gets access to. The 6 months were hard. Worth every bit of it. But here's what I think changes next. The best finance and procurement teams won't just adopt AI. They'll learn to run it, configure it, direct it and get outcomes from it that no out-of-the-box tool delivers. The best ones on our platform aren't using Flo. They're directing it - configuring agents, setting rules, tuning outputs. They spend zero time on process and all their time on judgment. We call them procurement engineers. And they're the reason we built Flo the way we did - as a workforce you operate. That's the shift we're betting on. And we think it's the most important one happening in finance right now. Comment "AGENT" below and I'll show you how to build your first procurement agent with Flo Read more about FLO here : https://lnkd.in/geKMxASs
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Swati Sharma reacted on thisSwati Sharma reacted on thisHi All, I founded Thriving Springs AI with the mission of empowering workplace professionals with AI powered upskilling & knowledge intelligence and empowering our users to ‘Thrive’ at work. Over the last 3.6 years, we built a very sophisticated AI first platform which won us several marquee customers across geographies (US, India & APAC) and scaled to a large user base demonstrating strong product value. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Uber has acquired the Thriving Springs platform and the core team has joined the Uber AI Solutions. Here is the official announcement from Uber AI solutions - https://lnkd.in/g2M7xeKt This is a huge accomplishment for all of us at Thriving Springs and a great culmination of our collective efforts and our startup journey. I am grateful to everyone who supported us in this journey - all our employees, customers and investors. I am also very grateful to Uber AI solutions leadership for their support and endorsement through this process. Uber was one of our early customers, so this next step feels especially meaningful. We partnered with them in the Uber AI Solutions business that provides upskilling and economic opportunities through digital tasks that train leading AI platforms. What makes this very special is the natural synergy in the mission of creating economic opportunities through upskilling and we now have an opportunity to make the impact much bigger and on a global scale ! At a personal level, I feel fortunate and grateful to have experienced the founder's journey, starting with an idea to scaling up and leading to an exit. The entrepreneurship experience has given me tremendous learning, growth and a deeper perspective both personally and professionally. Looking ahead, I am very excited to embark on my new journey within Uber and where I will be leading the product team at Uber AI solutions (Onboarding, Quality & Payments verticals) and looking forward to helping build frontier AI platforms at Uber ! Megha Yethadka Pankaj K. Naga Kasu Dan Carpenter Shruti G. Namita Dalmia Karuna Jain Ishaan Khosla Sanil Sachar Drishti Goenka Eswervarma Ganapathiraju Abhishek Garg Surojit Bhattacharyya Rishaad Currimjee Anjan Anthony Awasthi
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Swati Sharma reacted on thisHumbled and pleasantly surprised to be included alongside such an accomplished group..Thanks to my team and xfn partners for helping build TikTok as a trusted platform! Beyond words ... Thanks Gold House for the recognition.Swati Sharma reacted on thisIncredibly proud to see TikTok leaders Will L., Sandeep Grover, and Ying Zhi honored on this year's Gold 100 list! 🥇 🙌 Grateful to be part of an organization led by individuals who are shaping global business, product innovation, and trust & safety at scale—and doing so with real impact. Well-deserved recognition for all three! Thank you, Gold House, for this recognition and for continuing to spotlight Asian Pacific excellence. Explore the full Gold 100 list here: https://lnkd.in/gktdWHQD #Gold100 #GoldExcellence
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Swati Sharma liked thisSwati Sharma liked thisUnpacking my 15-year service anniversary award at Adobe- grateful for the journey, the people, and the growth. From building and scaling products to navigating waves of technological change and evolving customer needs, it’s been a deeply enriching experience. I continue to have the opportunity to work on meaningful problems, learn from exceptional leaders and teams, and contribute to products that create real customer value. What stands out most is the culture—one that encourages thinking big, taking ownership, and continuously raising the bar. It’s also where I’ve grown as a product leader, mentor, and collaborator. Grateful for the trust and the journey so far—excited to keep building what’s next.
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Swati Sharma liked thisSwati Sharma liked thisWhat a week! Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 was high energy 🚀 Google Managed MCP is now available for everyone. Seeing it featured across the main keynote, the developer keynote, and multiple deep-dive sessions was a massive milestone for the team. Thank you to my co-presenter Tarun Gumar for an incredible live demo at our session and to our customer, Insta360 for sharing how Google Managed MCP is becoming the backbone for their next-gen video editing agents. I’m grateful to my leadership for the opportunity and to the entire team who worked tirelessly to get us to this launch. I can’t wait to see how the community builds agents with these new tools! Some memories in action: 📝 Read the blog post: https://lnkd.in/g5jwfikN 📺 Watch the Highlights video: https://lnkd.in/gVfRNfCF 📺 Watch the Demo snippet: https://lnkd.in/grQ-6ZkU 📸 Check out some snapshots from the event below! Thomas Kurian Brad Calder Anna Berenberg Michael Bachman Ines Envid Yubin Gong Mateusz Bojda Todd Segal David Soria Parra Steven Sun Richard Seroter Allison Park Smitha Kolan Beth Brown Vaibhav Katkade #googlecloudnext2026 #google #gcp #googlecloud #MCP #lasvegas #GoogleCloudNext
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Just wrapped up a powerful 2‑day #7HabitsOfHighlyEffectivePeople "Signature Edition" workshop with Rupender Khaira, and I’m walking away with a very fresh perspective on both work and life. What struck me most was this: most of us “know” these principles somewhere in the back of our mind – be proactive, begin with the end in mind, sharpen the saw, and so on. But there’s a huge difference between quietly agreeing with an idea and truly understanding how to live it. Rupender Khaira didn’t just walk us through the book; he unpacked the real meaning behind each habit with stories, frameworks, and reflections that made the concepts click at a much deeper level. It felt less like a training and more like having a mentor translate timeless wisdom into practical actions for both personal and professional growth. Grateful for the opportunity to revisit these fundamentals with fresh eyes. Sometimes, the most powerful insights aren’t “new” – they’re the ones that finally land.
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Brian Whalley
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I constantly oscillate between sharing in-progress work and completed work. This means I'm long overdue to share some exciting updates on Wonderment Delivery Promise, our pre-purchase ETAs product. Wonderment now supports Rules for transit estimations and fulfillment estimations to allow you to account for per-product ETA customizations (like embroidery and engraving), warehouse delays, or other events that would impact coming estimates. Here's a quick demo of how you can use them for communicating pre-orders, backorders, and delays: https://lnkd.in/eb88vmcu
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Devon O'Rourke
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On the latest episode of Embracing Erosion I sat down with Suyog Deshpande, Co-Founder & CEO of Webless (a Fluvio Ventures portfolio company). Before starting Webless, Suyog spent years at Amplitude, Salesforce, and Samsara - shaping products and GTM strategy at scale as a product marketing leader. That perspective is now fueling one of the boldest bets in tech: 🏗️ rebuilding the web for LLMs. Instead of optimizing for clicks and SEO, Webless imagines an agentic web -where sites are designed to interact directly with AI models and agents. We dug into: - What an LLM-native web could actually look like - How companies can prepare to be LLM-ready - What metrics will matter beyond pageviews and clicks - Why safety and trust are core to agent-driven experiences - Lessons Suyog brings from “big tech” into this transformation If you’re curious about how discovery, trust, and value exchange will evolve online, this one’s worth your time. Link to the full episode in the comments 👇
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Aishwarya Srinivasan
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Priyank Kapadia
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Launching: Chat with Priyank (beta) today on https://priyank.tech A few weeks ago, I launched priyank.tech as a single home for my work, projects, and notes. Today I’m adding a faster way to get to the signal: Skip the scrolling, ask. “Chat with Priyank” answers questions about my projects, views, and skills by pulling the most relevant context and giving you a concise, useful response. What’s under the hood (and why): - Human‑verified access - Conversations start only after the system knows it’s interacting with a person, not a bot. - Scope & guardrails - It only answers questions about me. When a query is out of scope or uncertain, it responds with a polite “I don’t know.” - Context engineering first (no RAG, yet!) - An analysis by industry veterans suggested that GPT-5 class models can correctly use ~85% of the provided context. I want to see how far careful, prompt, and context design can go before adding retrieval. I’ll evaluate this over the next few days and decide before graduating from beta. - Prompt caching enabled - To keep costs under control (and responses snappy), repeat prompts and shared context are cached. - Early memory layer - A lightweight short-term memory layer powers more personal, consistent answers across sessions. Try it on: https://priyank.tech If it’s your first visit, do subscribe to my newsletter—I’ll share build notes, decisions, and lessons learned there. Starter prompts: “Tell me about your AI and Generative AI expertise “How can you help me become an AI first organization?” Feedback is welcome, especially edge cases and failure modes. #AI #product #buildinpublic #LLM
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Saurabh Khetan
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Vansh M.
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Jacob Clark
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Yet to see a firm talk seriously about outcome growth from AI. It is all “output, output”. Which is ironic given that for over a decade software has enjoyed compounding output gains through abstractions, while outcomes have stayed flat or even declined. Nobody seemed interested in measuring that. Individual output gains can actually reduce the productivity of the system as a whole. More output does not guarantee better outcomes. My mental model is this: if we are creating software at ten to twenty times the pace we did before, then the upstream and downstream feedback loops would also need to scale by the same factor to make sure we are building the right thing. That is not only unrealistic but undesirable. When everything speeds up, the noise to signal ratio explodes, and it becomes harder to know what actually moved the needle and what is worth iterating on.
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Henry Tran
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