Nickey Skarstad

We actually put more friction in the onboarding flow to help to start to solve for that. So we actually slowed you down. We made you be more thoughtful about what you were listing. And by doing that, we actually helped you get to a first sale faster.

My top advice for new PMs, it's just to be a consumer. To download new products, to try them out, to use all the things and try them because I think it actually makes you a better product builder.

I've seen a lot of director level people through my career who will try to work on strategy in a vacuum alone. They'll write a document and they'll be like, 'Okay, team. Here's what we're doing. Here's our strategy.' And it never goes well.

I went through my calendar and I changed the colors of all of the meetings on my calendar to red, yellow, and green after I had the meeting. And when I looked back at the last few weeks, it was almost all red and yellow. And I was like, okay, this is really from an energy standpoint, I don't think I love this.

Get really good at figuring out what are the things that you love most about being a product person, and how can you optimize your next role for those things that you love?

Airbnb does not ship product if it is not good. And even if they're trying new things, they are obsessed with the end consumer experience.