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Accelerate Your PM Career

Ascending to CPO: The Path to Product Leadership

Hosted by Wes Kao, Nikhyl Singhal, Mayur Kamat, and Christine Zdelar

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Executive Communication & Influence for Senior ICs and Managers
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What you'll learn

Insider career insights from top product leaders

Lenny Rachitsky ranked these companies as among those that accelerate PM careers the most. Join us to learn why.

What makes a CPO-track PM

Find out what differentiates the 1% who move up from their peers.

How AI is reshaping product skills

And how to keep up in the rapidly changing landscape.

Why this topic matters

Leaders from Intercom, N26, and Meta reveal what these career-accelerating companies do differently, and give you the tactical playbook for reaching product leadership faster.

You'll learn from

Wes Kao

Co-founder at Maven, co-founder of Seth Godin's altMBA

Wes Kao is an executive coach, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes at newsletter.weskao.com. She teaches a bestselling course on executive communication and influence, and coaches tech leaders at companies like Amazon, 1Password, Amplitude, DoorDash, Google, etc. Her writing via newsletter, Twitter, and LinkedIn reaches 300,000+ readers each week.

Nikhyl Singhal

Founder, Skip Community, ex-VP @ Meta, CPO @ Credit Karma, Director @ Google

Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of the Skip CPO community. He's a serial entrepreneur and product leader who co-founded three startups (serving as CEO for two that were acquired by IBM and Google), before transitioning to product management. Led the launch of Google Hangouts and Google Photos, served as CPO at Credit Karma for four years helping it reach one-third of Americans, and spent four years as VP at Facebook (Meta) leading News Feed, Groups, Video, and Stories—products used by billions.

Mayur Kamat

CPO @ N26, fmr SVP @ Binance

Mayur Kamat is the chief product officer at N26—a $9 billion neobank serving over 7 million customers in 25 countries—where he leads product, design, data, and research. Prior to N26, Mayur was Head of Product at Binance, growing the crypto exchange to a peak $400 billion valuation. Earlier in his career, he built and scaled products at Google (Gmail Mobile, Hangouts), Microsoft, and travel unicorn Agoda.

Christine Zdelar

Director of Product @ Intercom, fin.ai

Christine Zdelar is a Director of Product at Intercom and Fin.ai, the world's #1 AI Agent for customer service. She has 13 years of product experience across financial services, SaaS, and B2G. Christine is particularly interested in how AI is transforming the way we build and market products—and the new questions it raises for teams, customers, and businesses alike.

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