
Product Management from Big Tech to Startups
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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