The Skip Podcast
Nikhyl Singhal
The Skip podcast helps tech professionals get ahead in their career. It's hosted by Nikhyl Singhal, a three-time founder, CPO, and product executive at Meta and Google. Nikhyl has helped scale four of the most successful tech products ever: Facebook, Credit Karma, Google Photos, and Google Hangouts. He now runs Skip Coach, a career service powered by the world's top CPO community, and has coached hundreds of product leaders through career decisions, management challenges, and transitions.
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31 snips
Jul 30, 2024 • 44min
Stage of company: a career unlock
Discover how a company's growth stage impacts product management roles and career paths. Explore the four key stages: from early chaos to established market leaders. Learn how to align your skills with the right stage and make informed career moves. Dive into the challenges and dynamics of transitioning between stages, the importance of diverse experiences, and how to navigate innovation in established firms. Gain insights from seasoned leaders to enhance your career in product management.
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Jul 10, 2024 • 38min
The art of building your personal brand
Tech executives Annie Pearl from Microsoft and Iska Saric from Meta discuss the power of personal branding in career development. They debunk myths, share strategies for brand building, and highlight the importance of networking and storytelling. The episode emphasizes authenticity, peak roles, audience targeting, and gender dynamics in personal branding.
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Jun 20, 2024 • 52min
Battling job search anxiety
This podcast delves into the challenges of job hunting in the tech industry, offering valuable advice on rebuilding confidence, effective job search strategies, and the importance of networking and self-improvement. It also emphasizes the significance of mental and physical well-being, drawing inspiration from professional athletes' dedication to skill enhancement during downtime.
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May 28, 2024 • 33min
Avoiding burnout for high achievers
The podcast delves into the personal nature of burnout for high achievers, discussing the importance of setting boundaries and finding hobbies. Real-world examples and insights are shared, highlighting how burnout stems from success. The episode explores balancing work and life, adopting a long-term career view, and avoiding low-energy work.
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May 14, 2024 • 41min
Crafting a compelling career story
Crafting a compelling career story is essential in today's job market, where storytelling can highlight achievements and authenticity. The podcast discusses the 6 steps of career storytelling, shedding light on moving from a lone wolf to a team player and choosing between a startup or big tech job. The host provides coaching on grit, patience, and tenure, emphasizing the importance of effective communication in career development and success.
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Feb 11, 2024 • 34min
Shedding perceptions: Moving from lone wolf to team player
The podcast discusses shedding poor perceptions in the workplace, navigating power dynamics, the up/down/across model of collaboration, compromising, the founder mindset in a large org, and more. The caller's struggle to change people's perception of them and whether to optimize for short or long-term career wins are explored.
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Jan 21, 2024 • 33min
Is my next job at a startup or big tech?
A caller in a live coaching session discusses dissatisfaction with their current role and seeks guidance on their next job. The podcast delves into choosing between startups and late-stage companies, exploring compensation expectations and risk tolerance. It also examines the challenges of transitioning from a management to an individual contributor role.
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Jan 7, 2024 • 34min
Coaching grit, patience & tenure
In this podcast, the host discusses a live coaching session with a listener who is unsure about joining a tech company. They explore the challenges of navigating multiple roles and career growth, transitioning to a BIPO-founded company, and developing and implementing a strategy. The importance of patience, grit, and relationship building for career progression is emphasized.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 37min
Are you short changing your career by not managing people?
In this episode, the host introduces a new segment called live coaching where they discuss the career prospects of a highly skilled technical problem solver. They provide advice on framing and explaining work to recruiters and managers, and discuss the importance of developing management skills for career growth. They also discuss the strategy of connecting with talent teams at venture capitalists to find job opportunities.
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Oct 1, 2023 • 51min
Greatest hits on career advice with Peter Yang (Roblox, ex-Reddit)
Peter Yang, Product Lead at Roblox, discusses advancing mid to late-stage product management careers. Topics include pursuing growth over promotion, optimizing for company stage, knowing when to leave a company, trade-offs between compensation and tenure, and why top companies offer high compensation.
