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What Do Product Managers Actually Do?

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for your job right?', 'start': 123.018, 'duration': 6.746}, {'end': 131.044, 'text': "I think you're always thinking about it.", 'start': 129.783, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 132.105, 'text': "Okay, you're always thinking about it.", 'start': 131.065, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 134.387, 'text': "But I think it's a really deeply understanding.", 'start': 132.145, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 138.93, 'text': 'in order to get real product intuition, you have to deeply understand what the user problem or customer problem is.', 'start': 134.387, 'duration': 4.543}, {'end': 139.391, 'text': 'I see.', 'start': 139.13, 'duration': 0.261}, {'end': 144.434, 'text': "And that's either doing research or utilizing data and asking the questions that you need.", 'start': 139.431, 'duration': 5.003}, {'end': 149.418, 'text': 'I think those are the feedback loops that tell you, and reading market research or looking at trends.', 'start': 144.454, 'duration': 4.964}], 'summary': 'To improve product vision, deeply understand user problems and utilize data for feedback loops.', 'duration': 26.4, 'max_score': 123.018, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig123018.jpg'}, {'end': 188.054, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 160.664, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 164.907, 'text': "Like that means like discovery might be really hard or people don't have sets of controls right?", 'start': 160.664, 'duration': 4.243}, {'end': 172.59, 'text': 'And so in that case, like you, have to really understand all these external signals to help build that intuition.', 'start': 165.387, 'duration': 7.203}, {'end': 174.71, 'text': 'Thanks for debunking this misconception.', 'start': 172.79, 'duration': 1.92}, {'end': 180.292, 'text': "It seems like it's a very messy job and you're trying to make things un-messy all the time.", 'start': 174.77, 'duration': 5.522}, {'end': 185.674, 'text': "So because it's so messy to unblock people and do all that crap.", 'start': 180.932, 'duration': 4.742}, {'end': 188.054, 'text': 'what would make your job easier for different functions?', 'start': 185.674, 'duration': 2.38}], 'summary': 'Understanding external signals is crucial for discovery; job involves unblocking and organizing, making it a messy but important task.', 'duration': 27.39, 'max_score': 160.664, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig160664.jpg'}, {'end': 255.557, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 216.039, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 222.205, 'text': 'And so at that point, if those deadlines are not actually accurate, then it postpones everything and it pushes things out.', 'start': 216.039, 'duration': 6.166}, {'end': 230.052, 'text': "And so it's all about just getting the proper estimation and chunking it out into the right set of milestones to make sure you continue to make progress.", 'start': 222.805, 'duration': 7.247}, {'end': 234.195, 'text': 'Right So being good at estimating how long it will take certain things.', 'start': 230.252, 'duration': 3.943}, {'end': 234.916, 'text': 'Yeah Right.', 'start': 234.376, 'duration': 0.54}, {'end': 243.423, 'text': "So do you prefer if someone overestimates how long it is or underestimates it? I mean, it's always under-promise, over-deliver.", 'start': 235.196, 'duration': 8.227}, {'end': 248.408, 'text': "It's always one thing that you should keep in the back of your mind.", 'start': 244.965, 'duration': 3.443}, {'end': 251.971, 'text': "Yeah, I wasn't very good at estimating when things would be done.", 'start': 248.768, 'duration': 3.203}, {'end': 255.557, 'text': "It's not necessarily just like us writing up front how long it is.", 'start': 253.075, 'duration': 2.482}], 'summary': 'Accurate estimation and milestone chunking key for progress; under-promise, over-deliver mindset crucial.', 'duration': 39.518, 'max_score': 216.039, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig216039.jpg'}, {'end': 304.72, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 274.868, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 278.15, 'text': "For example, if the product is already booming versus a product that's crap.", 'start': 274.868, 'duration': 3.282}, {'end': 279.544, 'text': "Yeah, I think there's a couple ways.", 'start': 278.763, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 282.586, 'text': 'I think you can do one on the product strategy that you have.', 'start': 279.564, 'duration': 3.022}, {'end': 284.087, 'text': 'Did you set the right vision?', 'start': 282.906, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 289.07, 'text': "And it may not necessarily be that you succeeded, but it's also if you failed.", 'start': 284.247, 'duration': 4.823}, {'end': 290.311, 'text': 'did you learn why you failed?', 'start': 289.07, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 292.552, 'text': 'That can help iterate on your product strategy coming up.', 'start': 290.331, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 295.674, 'text': "So it's not just, you don't get rewarded just for succeeding.", 'start': 292.612, 'duration': 3.062}, {'end': 298.596, 'text': 'You can actually get rewarded for failing, but failing in the right way.', 'start': 295.694, 'duration': 2.902}, {'end': 304.72, 'text': "So you had the right hypotheses, did all the research, what you built just didn't work out, and then you learn for why it didn't work out.", 'start': 298.656, 'duration': 6.064}], 'summary': 'Product strategy should focus on learning from both successes and failures to iterate and improve.', 'duration': 29.852, 'max_score': 274.868, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig274868.jpg'}, {'end': 342.859, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 309.202, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 311.924, 'text': "It's like did you execute on what you were gonna say you were gonna do?", 'start': 309.202, 'duration': 2.722}, {'end': 316.766, 'text': 'Like, if you have six months and you have to build something in six months, did you actually build it and ship it in six months??', 'start': 312.344, 'duration': 4.422}, {'end': 319.607, 'text': 'And the last one is more like kind of cross-functional.', 'start': 317.346, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 320.087, 'text': "It's like.", 'start': 319.647, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 321.528, 'text': 'were you able to motivate your team??', 'start': 320.087, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 323.309, 'text': 'Did they like working with you??', 'start': 322.008, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 324.97, 'text': 'Were you able to unblock them??', 'start': 323.689, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 329.311, 'text': 'And how was your relationship with, like, other teams outside of your core team?', 'start': 325.41, 'duration': 3.901}, {'end': 334.214, 'text': 'And like, did you were able to get like a lot more out of other people? And did they like doing it?', 'start': 329.351, 'duration': 4.863}, {'end': 342.859, 'text': 'Do you think the skills to pass the interview as a PM are the same as the skills to be a good PM?', 'start': 335.074, 'duration': 7.785}], 'summary': "Key aspects of pm performance include meeting deadlines, team motivation, collaboration, and leveraging others' potential.", 'duration': 33.657, 'max_score': 309.202, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig309202.jpg'}, {'end': 385.698, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 360.729, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 366.831, 'text': 'I think in product it actually gives you a good signal on can you take an ambiguous problem and break it down.', 'start': 360.729, 'duration': 6.102}, {'end': 373.694, 'text': "If you have a really ambiguous problem and you're not able to put a framework in place to analyze it, it's gonna be really,", 'start': 367.071, 'duration': 6.623}, {'end': 374.614, 'text': 'really hard to be successful.', 'start': 373.694, 'duration': 0.92}, {'end': 375.555, 'text': 'You can learn it, for sure.', 'start': 374.634, 'duration': 0.921}, {'end': 383.278, 'text': "And then if you can't have fluidity with some data and saying here's a hypothesis of why something's down and say here's how I would prove it,", 'start': 375.575, 'duration': 7.703}, {'end': 384.058, 'text': "you're gonna struggle.", 'start': 383.278, 'duration': 0.78}, {'end': 385.698, 'text': "I'm not saying it's not learnable.", 'start': 384.478, 'duration': 1.22}], 'summary': 'Fluidity with data and framework crucial for solving ambiguous problems', 'duration': 24.969, 'max_score': 360.729, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig360729.jpg'}], 'start': 0.189, 'title': 'Product management', 'summary': 'Discusses the misconceptions about the role of product managers, emphasizing their value in shaping the product vision, unblocking challenges, and understanding user needs. it also highlights effective communication for project management, emphasizing the importance of understanding external signals and setting accurate timelines. additionally, it covers product strategy, execution, and cross-functional skills in product management, emphasizing the value of learning from failure and the ability to take on ambiguous problems.', 'chapters': [{'end': 160.644, 'start': 0.189, 'title': 'The role of product managers in building successful products', 'summary': 'Discusses the misconception about the role of product managers, highlighting the value they add in shaping the product vision, unblocking challenges, and understanding user needs. it emphasizes the importance of pms in creating successful and user-centric products.', 'duration': 160.455, 'highlights': ['Product managers play a vital role in shaping the overall strategy and ensuring that features manifest into a product that meets user needs, which is essential for successful products. PMs are crucial in ensuring that features align with the overall product strategy to create products that meet user needs and are successful.', 'PMs are responsible for unblocking challenges and managing the project, which is essential for ensuring the team can effectively execute tasks and meet project timelines. PMs are instrumental in removing obstacles and managing projects to ensure the team can execute tasks efficiently and meet project deadlines.', 'Understanding user problems and needs through research, data analysis, and market trends is crucial for developing product intuition and vision, highlighting the importance of PMs in this aspect. PMs need to deeply understand user problems and needs through research and data analysis to develop product intuition and vision, essential for creating user-centric products.']}, {'end': 274.628, 'start': 160.664, 'title': 'Effective communication for project management', 'summary': 'Highlights the importance of understanding external signals, setting accurate timelines and deliverables, and the impact of proper estimation on project progression in facilitating project management and making the work of software engineers and data scientists easier.', 'duration': 113.964, 'highlights': ['Understanding external signals to build intuition and facilitate discovery is crucial for effective project management.', 'Accurate estimation and setting timelines for deliverables are essential for planning and progressing project tasks.', 'Under-promising and over-delivering is a key principle to keep in mind for effective project management.', 'Proper estimation and accurate deadlines are crucial in preventing postponement and ensuring continual progress in project tasks.']}, {'end': 428.424, 'start': 274.868, 'title': 'Product strategy and execution', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of product strategy, execution, and cross-functional skills in product management, highlighting the value of learning from failure and the ability to take on ambiguous problems and break them down.', 'duration': 153.556, 'highlights': ['The importance of having the right product strategy and learning from failure to iterate on it is emphasized, indicating that success is not the only measure of reward in product management.', 'The significance of executing on planned tasks within the given time frame is highlighted, stressing the importance of timely delivery in product management.', 'The value of cross-functional skills, team motivation, and the ability to unblock and collaborate with others is emphasized, illustrating the importance of interpersonal and leadership skills in product management.', 'The necessity of the ability to take on ambiguous problems and break them down is pointed out, indicating the crucial role of problem-solving and analytical skills in product management.', 'The discussion on the relevance of experience in product management and the potential bias against younger individuals due to lack of experience is mentioned, highlighting the perceived challenges in the industry related to experience requirements.']}], 'duration': 428.235, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig189.jpg', 'highlights': ['PMs play a vital role in shaping strategy and ensuring features meet user needs for successful products.', 'PMs are responsible for unblocking challenges and managing projects to ensure efficient execution.', 'Understanding user problems and needs through research and data analysis is crucial for developing product intuition and vision.', 'Understanding external signals is crucial for effective project management.', 'Accurate estimation and setting timelines for deliverables are essential for planning and progressing project tasks.', 'Under-promising and over-delivering is a key principle for effective project management.', 'The importance of having the right product strategy and learning from failure is emphasized in product management.', 'The significance of executing planned tasks within the given time frame is highlighted.', 'The value of cross-functional skills, team motivation, and the ability to unblock and collaborate with others is emphasized.', 'The necessity of the ability to take on ambiguous problems and break them down is pointed out.']}, {'end': 689.095, 'segs': [{'end': 459.781, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 429.285, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 434.671, 'text': 'So for you, especially during your time at Facebook, what skills do you think were most important to your success?', 'start': 429.285, 'duration': 5.386}, {'end': 438.569, 'text': "I think at Facebook it's a lot of just communication, like over-communicating.", 'start': 435.427, 'duration': 3.142}, {'end': 441.511, 'text': 'Realize when you work on your team itself.', 'start': 438.629, 'duration': 2.882}, {'end': 446.053, 'text': "people understand all the context for why you're doing things and you don't need to like.", 'start': 441.511, 'duration': 4.542}, {'end': 447.274, 'text': 'you can get really into details.', 'start': 446.053, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 453.297, 'text': "But if you take a step up and look at your manager, your manager's manager, or other teams, they lack all the individual details.", 'start': 447.334, 'duration': 5.963}, {'end': 459.781, 'text': "And so it's like keeping those people informed to say you're working on this, this is why you're working on it, makes your life way easier.", 'start': 453.958, 'duration': 5.823}], 'summary': 'Effective communication and over-communication were crucial at facebook, ensuring all teams were informed and 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{'end': 481.937, 'text': 'So communication matters a lot.', 'start': 480.636, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 484.319, 'text': 'What do you hate most about being a PM? Ooh.', 'start': 482.237, 'duration': 2.082}, {'end': 487.185, 'text': "I think there's, it's hard.", 'start': 486.024, 'duration': 1.161}], 'summary': 'Importance of managing communication outside core team at big company.', 'duration': 25.603, 'max_score': 461.582, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig461582.jpg'}, {'end': 521.572, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 496.193, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 503.419, 'text': "step through politics and like and people's incentives is kind of you're all on the same team.", 'start': 496.193, 'duration': 7.226}, {'end': 507.822, 'text': 'And the fact that people sometimes act like a different at differing agendas is really difficult,', 'start': 503.899, 'duration': 3.923}, {'end': 509.844, 'text': 'because you have to find why you have to understand it.', 'start': 507.822, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 514.188, 'text': 'And then sometimes like it comes to head if those, if those things are not like aligned.', 'start': 510.244, 'duration': 3.944}, {'end': 521.572, 'text': "And so in that case, it's just like there's a lot of unnecessary roadblocks for you to do something that you want to do and that everyone's agreed to.", 'start': 514.808, 'duration': 6.764}], 'summary': "Understanding people's differing agendas can create unnecessary roadblocks in achieving common goals.", 'duration': 25.379, 'max_score': 496.193, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig496193.jpg'}, {'end': 584.89, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 555.773, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 559.815, 'text': 'So anyways, can you give me an example of what office politics actually look like in real life?', 'start': 555.773, 'duration': 4.042}, {'end': 563.357, 'text': "Yeah, I think it just means I think it's less like contentious is what people think.", 'start': 559.855, 'duration': 3.502}, {'end': 570.601, 'text': "I think it just means like you're working with a team that's not your team, right? They have different goals and like they have different incentives.", 'start': 563.417, 'duration': 7.184}, {'end': 572.883, 'text': "Like if you're on that team, like you have a goal that you want to hit.", 'start': 570.641, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 577.665, 'text': "Like you're not willing to work with another team because it doesn't mean that, it doesn't help you hit that goal.", 'start': 573.083, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 579.907, 'text': 'And so why would you ever want to do that right?', 'start': 578.066, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 584.89, 'text': "And so it's more of like how are teams aligned and structured to make sure, like you can reduce that?", 'start': 579.927, 'duration': 4.963}], 'summary': 'Office politics involve navigating different team goals and incentives to achieve alignment and reduce conflict.', 'duration': 29.117, 'max_score': 555.773, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig555773.jpg'}, {'end': 653.201, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 625.762, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 634.546, 'text': "And now with Dashlane, I don't have to, because every time there's an online form, it just fills everything out automatically, saving me tons of time,", 'start': 625.762, 'duration': 8.784}, {'end': 636.267, 'text': 'and it keeps everything secured.', 'start': 634.546, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 645.935, 'text': 'Plus. if any of your personal information gets leaked in the dark web, Dashlane will alert you because they are actively monitoring the dark net for you.', 'start': 636.787, 'duration': 9.148}, {'end': 653.201, 'text': 'When you do see your passwords get leaked, all you have to do is press one single button and it will change all your passwords for you.', 'start': 646.395, 'duration': 6.806}], 'summary': 'Dashlane automatically fills out online forms, saves time, and monitors dark web for leaked personal information.', 'duration': 27.439, 'max_score': 625.762, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig625762.jpg'}], 'start': 429.285, 'title': 'Communication and office politics', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of over-communicating and managing outside of the core team in a big company, and also discusses the challenges of navigating office politics, highlighting the importance of aligning team goals and incentives to avoid inefficiencies and unnecessary roadblocks.', 'chapters': [{'end': 496.193, 'start': 429.285, 'title': 'Importance of communication in a big company', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of over-communicating and managing outside of the core team, especially at a big company, where people lack individual details and work on many different things.', 'duration': 66.908, 'highlights': ['Over-communicating and managing outside of the core team are crucial skills, particularly at a big company where people lack individual details and work on many different things.', "At Facebook, communication and ensuring that people understand the context for why you're doing things are key to success.", 'Managing outside of the core team is a significant skill to learn, especially at a big company, where finite resources and numerous different projects make it challenging.', "In a small startup, everyone knows what you're working on, but in a bigger company, it's difficult because people are working on so many different things."]}, {'end': 689.095, 'start': 496.193, 'title': 'Understanding office politics', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of navigating office politics, highlighting the importance of aligning team goals and incentives to avoid inefficiencies and unnecessary roadblocks.', 'duration': 192.902, 'highlights': ['Navigating office politics involves understanding and aligning with different team goals and incentives to eliminate inefficiencies and roadblocks. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding and aligning with different team goals and incentives to eliminate inefficiencies and roadblocks.', 'Office politics are not necessarily contentious but revolve around working with teams that have different goals and incentives, requiring a balance between individual and team priorities. The concept of office politics revolves around working with teams that have different goals and incentives, requiring a balance between individual and team priorities.', 'The speaker shares a personal experience with using Dashlane as a time-saving tool for managing passwords and credit card information, highlighting its security features and dark web monitoring. 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I know we talked about that a little bit, but just like more concretely.', 'start': 689.876, 'duration': 6.409}, {'end': 697.086, 'text': 'Yeah, I think like.', 'start': 696.405, 'duration': 0.681}, {'end': 697.547, 'text': 'in general.', 'start': 697.086, 'duration': 0.461}, {'end': 700.471, 'text': "it's like just continue to be thinking about like products, right?", 'start': 697.547, 'duration': 2.924}, {'end': 704.716, 'text': "Like products that you use, whether it's like an iPhone, a watch like.", 'start': 700.491, 'duration': 4.225}, {'end': 709.099, 'text': "It doesn't have to be actually like an electronic product.", 'start': 705.737, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 711.621, 'text': "It can be anything and you're like, okay, how would I make this better?", 'start': 709.12, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 715.904, 'text': 'And then, just like breaking it down in your head, like, oh, who would use it?', 'start': 712.201, 'duration': 3.703}], 'summary': 'Transitioning into pm: continuously think about product improvement for any item, considering its user base.', 'duration': 26.028, 'max_score': 689.876, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig689876.jpg'}, {'end': 769.594, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 728.391, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 733.413, 'text': 'And then I think, like, just like understanding more of developing hypotheses,', 'start': 728.391, 'duration': 5.022}, {'end': 737.095, 'text': "of why you think something's the case and trying to prove or disprove it.", 'start': 733.413, 'duration': 3.682}, {'end': 740.177, 'text': "So that'll help you develop the critical thinking.", 'start': 737.115, 'duration': 3.062}, {'end': 744.779, 'text': 'I think understanding data in general is definitely helpful.', 'start': 740.197, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 751.243, 'text': "Being able to learn to write your own queries, though not necessary, it's just helpful to understand how the things are 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'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 862.588, 'text': 'I think other things that are helpful is even if you just do basic, look at some basic consulting frameworks.', 'start': 855.222, 'duration': 7.366}, {'end': 867.053, 'text': 'I think it just helps because it understands how people think about frameworks and breaking things down.', 'start': 863.168, 'duration': 3.885}], 'summary': 'Practice mock interviews with friends and utilize online resources to understand problem-solving frameworks.', 'duration': 36.991, 'max_score': 830.062, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig830062.jpg'}], 'start': 689.876, 'title': 'Transitioning into product management', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of continuously thinking about products, developing hypotheses, understanding data, and diving deep into product understanding as key tips for transitioning into product management.', 'chapters': [{'end': 787.907, 'start': 689.876, 'title': 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Emphasizes the importance of gaining real experience through mock interviews.', 'Effective communication and explanation of problem-solving abilities are crucial in product interviews. Stresses the significance of effectively communicating and proving understanding of a problem in interviews.', 'Leveraging online resources and consulting frameworks can be helpful for interview preparation. 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In the government.', 'start': 1230.076, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 1241.805, 'text': "I think it'd be really cool to be working foreign affairs and work with governmental policy, foreign policy across different parts of the world.", 'start': 1231.237, 'duration': 10.568}, {'end': 1244.427, 'text': "I think it's hard to get into it.", 'start': 1241.825, 'duration': 2.602}, {'end': 1254.373, 'text': "I think it's the process of because working in the government is very antiquated, where there's no real good career trajectory.", 'start': 1244.467, 'duration': 9.906}, {'end': 1256.974, 'text': "But I think that's super interesting.", 'start': 1255.473, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 1258.334, 'text': "That's true, that's true.", 'start': 1257.074, 'duration': 1.26}, {'end': 1259.115, 'text': "That's cool.", 'start': 1258.655, 'duration': 0.46}, {'end': 1263.477, 'text': "So what about now? What do you do outside of work? Let's not talk about work now.", 'start': 1259.635, 'duration': 3.842}, {'end': 1267.18, 'text': 'What do you do outside of work for fun? I love being outdoors.', 'start': 1263.717, 'duration': 3.463}, {'end': 1268.842, 'text': 'I love being hiking.', 'start': 1267.26, 'duration': 1.582}, {'end': 1270.243, 'text': 'I love going hiking.', 'start': 1268.882, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 1271.504, 'text': 'I love going skiing.', 'start': 1270.283, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 1272.325, 'text': 'I love traveling.', 'start': 1271.564, 'duration': 0.761}, {'end': 1273.406, 'text': 'Oh, yeah.', 'start': 1272.345, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 1274.847, 'text': 'Going to Japan in a couple days.', 'start': 1273.426, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 1275.808, 'text': 'Oh, really? Yeah.', 'start': 1274.907, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 1277.069, 'text': "Dude, everyone's going to Japan.", 'start': 1275.828, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 1278.53, 'text': 'Cool All right.', 'start': 1277.61, 'duration': 0.92}], 'summary': 'Interest in foreign affairs and government policy; enjoys outdoor activities and upcoming trip to japan.', 'duration': 48.454, 'max_score': 1230.076, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FqBvTFhS1ig/pics/FqBvTFhS1ig1230076.jpg'}], 'start': 1047.505, 'title': 'Aspirations and career interests', 'summary': "Covers the speaker's aspirations in entrepreneurship, emphasizing genuine passion and long-term commitment, creating impactful products for social good, focusing on health accessibility and societal-level problems, and expressing interest in mission-driven work in sports, healthcare data analytics, and foreign affairs.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1134.986, 'start': 1047.505, 'title': 'Ambitions and perspectives on entrepreneurship', 'summary': "Delves into the speaker's aspiration to start or join a small company, emphasizing the importance of genuine passion and long-term commitment over the allure of quick success in entrepreneurship.", 'duration': 87.481, 'highlights': ['The importance of genuine passion and long-term commitment over the allure of quick success in entrepreneurship, emphasizing the slim odds of success without true dedication (e.g., spending 10-15 years to build a company) and the need for a specific problem to solve.', "The speaker's preference for joining a small company to help build the product from scratch, rather than starting a company for the sake of it, highlighting the fascination with bringing something small to scale and growing it.", "The speaker's interest in starting or joining a small company, driven by a desire to solve specific problems and bring products from inception to scale, showcasing the acquisition of valuable skills for future endeavors."]}, {'end': 1180.932, 'start': 1135.026, 'title': 'Impactful products for social good', 'summary': "Discusses the importance of creating impactful products for social good, specifically focusing on making health more accessible and addressing societal level problems, such as facilitating money transfer to rural countries, to positively impact people's lives.", 'duration': 45.906, 'highlights': ['Creating products for social good and health accessibility', 'Addressing societal level problems like money transfer to rural countries', "The significance of seeing the impact of a product on people's lives"]}, {'end': 1283.395, 'start': 1180.932, 'title': 'Exploring career aspirations and interests', 'summary': "Delves into the individual's interest in mission-driven work, particularly in sports and healthcare data analytics; 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