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Product Management from Big Tech to Startups

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

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