• Product Management from Big Tech to Startups

  • Apr 25 2021
  • Length: 56 mins
  • Podcast

Product Management from Big Tech to Startups

  • Summary

  • Jason Ma graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and immediately went to Oracle to pursue product management after graduation. After a few years in, he got the entrepreneurial itch and jumped to Scale, a hypergrowth startup that's helping accelerate AI development.  

    In episode 11, you'll hear: 

    0:00 Intro 

    2:20 Preparing for tech from undergrad 

    5:25 Getting into product 

    10:28 Why Oracle? 

    14:15 Day to day as a PM at Oracle 

    19:45 Transitioning to a startup 

    23:30 Scale overview, stage, interview process, and role 

    30:52 Scale as a key enabler for the AI industry 

    34:08 After undergrad: startups or big company? 

    39:51 Startup compensation & equity breakdown 

    45:33 Did a larger company better prepare you for a smaller one? 

    51:53 Closing thoughts & advice

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