Tony Poon

This is a podcast episode titled, Tony Poon. The summary for this episode is: Ego is a product-killer. It's what keeps us from empathizing with users and building the right thing. It doesn't always start from a place of selfish intentions, but if we don't keep ourselves in check, we can quickly slip away from creating products that benefit users.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/productleadership/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tony Poon</a>, Chief Product Officer at <a href="https://www.rzero.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">R-Zero</a>, joins the show to share how he battles his own ego in product leadership. We discuss balancing intuition and data-driven decisions, the challenge of product management in a new market, and the importance of listening well.You can find more information about this podcast at <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/93ecce9c-0530-4661-a507-b77e2748f4ee/sep.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sep.com/podcast</a> and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Key Takeaways

Guests

Tony explains how ego can kill products.

00:46 MIN

Tony shares a simple hack to keep your users' needs in focus.

00:27 MIN

Tony explains the challenge of product management with an invisible problem in a new market.

01:01 MIN

Tony discusses the importance of ensuring a new product is deployable.

00:44 MIN

Tony emphasizes the importance of listening as a product leader.

01:02 MIN

Tony shares how to engage in active listening.

00:53 MIN

Today's Host

Zac Darnell

|Host of Behind The Product & Principal at SEP

Today's Guest

Tony Poon

|Chief Product Officer at R-Zero

Tony is an engineer turned product manager with 20+ years of software and hardware experience in both B2B and B2C markets. He has a deep passion for making technology human; to create step function value to real customer problems through impactful workflows and experiences. He especially loves finding product and market fit for complex technologies that unite our physical and digital worlds.

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Dave Mathew

|Guest Host and Software Producer at SEP

As a Software Producer at SEP, Dave architects custom software experiences that address complex problems in diverse business domains. Dave is passionate about problem solving, human-centered design, and mentoring others.

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