Youtube to Coda: Building Top-performing Product Teams
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Built a promotion rubric that replaces scope with PSHE (problem → solution → how → execution) and maps people along a performance curve showing a mid‑career trough of disillusionment; used at YouTube to better calibrate promotions. Runs meetings with a ranked Q&A called Dory and pulse check to avoid groupthink. Uses Coda Packs to sync email and calendar, measures that typically 45% of time hits planned todos and treats meeting requests (not meetings) via an EA queue.
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