How to earn the trust of executive leadership

Earning the trust of the executive leadership team is critical to success of both teams and individuals. It speeds up decision making, it accelerates getting buy-in for new initiatives, and it amplifies the impact you can have. Finally it leads to your own career growth. Vivek started as an IC and grew to CPO at Yelp. In this interview he will share his principles to earn exec trust.

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Vivek Patel

SVP Product at Tinder, Ex-CPO at Yelp

Vivek Patel serves as Senior Vice President of Product at Tinder, where he leads the Core Product team to drive innovation and enhance user experiences. Prior to joining Tinder, Vivek was the Chief Product Officer at Yelp, leading a 185-person organization across product management, product design, and data science. Under his leadership, Yelp's business grew from $20 million to more than $1 billion in revenue, demonstrating his ability to scale operations and drive substantial growth.

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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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