Episode 12: Product Management, Interview Club and Music with Sumit K Singh

Episode 12 of Renaissance with Swati is now live!
And trust me it was such a heartfelt conversation which will leave you asking for more.

Sumit Kumar Singh is the co-founder of InterviewClub as well as the founder of the PM Mixer group. He plays 30 different musical instruments, he is a nature, food and travel photographer and he loves astronomy.

He is an alumni of Harvard Business School, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is an ex Microsoft employee, a Tedex speaker and the list of the fancy titles he has is unending.

Topics Discussed
🫶 Journey to IITs, IIMs and Harvard Business School
🫶 How technology lead to music & instruments
🫶 Being a Tedex speaker
🫶 Work life balance
🫶 Startups vs MNC
🫶 Product Management
🫶 Interview Club and PMx group

Key takeaways

💫 If we take away this network of people around us, then we don’t have anything else to offer
💫 You play music to express yourself not to impress
💫 A busy person has time for everything
💫 Keep the passion alive bcz otherwise you are just a dead man walking
💫 Segregate signal from noise to understand what customer really wants
💫 Artists are the designers who make our life better , so go for arts if you want to
💫 wherever you are, find your happiness
💫 Success and Failures are part of life, when you hit a roadblock, just change your road

Chapters :

00:00 Start
00:01:35 How technology lead to Music and Instruments
00:06:50 Tedex Talk
00:14:41 Work life balance - Striking a balance between passion and profession
00:20:07 Product Management and Starting a new venture
00: 27:47 Vision for interview club and PM Mixer
00:34:13 PM mixer group
00:36:10 Startup vs MNC
00:45:08 Startup ideas and Red car theory

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