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.
Tony Poon, Chief Product Officer at R-Zero, 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.
Episode Guests
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.
Dave Mathew | SEP Alumn
As a former Software Producer at SEP, Dave created custom software experiences that addressed complex problems in diverse business domains. Dave is passionate about problem solving, human-centered design, and mentoring others. Dave pairs his technical background with his expertise in product management and experience design to ensure we solve the right problems with our clients while building solutions to address them in the proper context.
