How to Develop High Agency

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How to Develop High Agency

Hosted by Satish Mummareddy

Wed, Sep 25, 2024

3:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Wed, Sep 25, 2024

3:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Invite your network

What you'll learn

What are the components of High Agency?

What are the mental blocks that get in the way?

How can you improve each component of high agency?

What deliberate practice can you do starting today?

Why this topic matters

Shreyas Doshi calls it “High Agency”, Paul Graham calls it “Relentlessly Resourceful”, and First Round Capital calls it “Heat Seeking Missiles”. They say it is the most important characteristic that determines founder & PM success. Everyone has a point on view on what it is. But no one talks about How to Develop High Agency. I'll share deliberate practice tools to develop high agency at any age.

You'll learn from

Satish Mummareddy

Ex PM Leader at Meta, Yelp and Yahoo. Founder Crossing Career Chasms.

In my 20 year career as a product & engineering leader, I have led & scaled products at Meta, Yelp, Yahoo and VideoMining.

At Meta, I led teams building AI agents, content & product recommendations, teen safety & well-being, civic engagement and advertising products. I coached 250+ PMs at Meta.
At Yelp, I grew the services verticals and self-serve ads businesses.
At Yahoo, I supported the video platforms & personalization teams.
At VideoMining, I started led computer vision research and engineering to build AI driven products. I authored 20+ approved patents.

I left Meta recently to help people cross career chasms by developing leadership & product skills.

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