It was super interesting to have a product that actually helped the world by reducing the environmental impact of driving, especially in a city like Los Angeles, and also democratized access to on-demand transportation by lowering the price point for taking an Uber. We spent a lot of time ensuring that the carpooling experience was a positive one for people, and did lots of research around pricing, social dynamics, messaging, and other variables that would make people more inclined to try carpooling. We were just figuring out how to make carpooling something that was socially accepted and financially efficient. I knew I wanted to work on a pre-IPO, high-growth company after my MBA, so I joined Uber and helped launch uberPOOL. As you look back, what is one project you are proud of creating over the years? We believe that in trying to get promoted and be a leader, it’s really important to work with someone who's been in your shoes and navigated the complexities of being an executive. From there, you work together through the program so you get access to best-in-class concepts to accelerate your learning and personalized feedback for your unique situation at work.Īll of our coaches have operating experience at top companies. Let’s say you’re a Product Manager, you can get matched with a coach that has experience in product management and coaching. We provide one-on-one coaching with expert-designed content to help people succeed at work. But, we believe there’s a better way to deliver that experience by creating more structure and lowering the barriers to entry.įor the past year and a half, we’ve been testing MVPs and building our platform. When clients meet with coaches, they discuss frameworks, concepts and strategies. We saw people were really struggling at work when it came to more of the soft skills, and needed help to get to the next level.įrom the product side, we saw a lot of opportunities to make coaching more efficient and effective by productizing parts of a live coaching experience. Once I experienced coaching, I knew there had to be better ways to give people access. Women and minorities are often the least likely to have people helping guide them to navigate politics and organizational dynamics. Without mentors and advocates, I’m not sure how I would have made that transition. What are you building at Outpace, and why are you passionate about it?Īcross companies, I experienced challenges trying to move from an individual contributor role to a manager role and expand my influence with executives. When my friend and mentor, Ravi Mehta (former CPO of Tinder, Product Director at Meta, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor) reached out to me to partner up to scale and democratize coaching, I was excited to team up with him to build Outpace. Next, I joined a venture studio that focused on the future of work and well-being. I discovered how much coaching energized me as I started taking on clients and thinking about how to get more people access to coaching at scale. This led me to my next role in Product Innovation at Netflix, where I worked closely with content and product teams to help launch new content verticals.Īfter that role, I went through the Hoffman Institute coaching program, which really transformed how I lead and deepened my self-awareness. There, I got to work on the intersection of consumer marketing, product strategy, and user research as I led go-to-market for new products. My work has mainly been in consumer tech: I joined as a Product Marketing Manager at Uber to launch uberPOOL, then joined Facebook for the launch of Facebook Live. I was fascinated by how companies could solve problems at scale with technology. I always knew that I wanted to start my own business someday. I studied mass media communications and business economics at UCLA and then entrepreneurship and innovation in my MBA at MIT Sloan. I’d always been interested in how people make decisions, and how technology plays a role in shaping culture. Each career decision has been a result of the problems I was most interested in solving at the time, the people I’d be working to solve those problems with, and what I would learn in that process.
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