This article will be very helpful for those I hire and those who hire me. In both cases, I’m referring to my management style and communication preferences. From now on, I’ll just forward this link :) In general, I like to work with highly-motivated, educated, charismatic, and multidisciplinary professionals who…

— Hey Sasha, I need your advice. We have а great team but for some reason, the workflow has been stuck for a while. The tech deliveries have ceased and we need your help to make whichever changes are necessary. Does this sound familiar? We, Product Owners/Managers, are natural-born ̶k̶i̶l̶l̶e̶r̶s̶…

The world-praised Israeli startup culture relies heavily on disruptive execution. There are famous quotes in Hebrew on pushing the boundaries like “jump above your belly button and hope to survive” or “start from the hardest effort you can and keep increasing slowly”. The cut-to-the-chase communication style naturally comes as a…

Following the perception that everyone is a teacher, working as a Product Manager, I’ve learned the most from my toughest bosses, peers and subordinates. Most of them were pushing me to higher standards, others behaved like children with grenades: sometimes we learn how to do things, sometimes we learn how…

You are new to the organization, coming to the first daily stand-up and, instantly, something doesn’t feel right. Let’s review the immediate signs pointing to the wrongly-implemented agile processes and, of course, the corrections worth making. Symptoms

Being a founder inherently means serving a set of conflicting interests: Conquering-the-world ambitions are reduced to the Minimal Value Product (MVP) due to the budget and time-to-market constraints. The product is envisioned as nice and friendly but needs to be built fast to validate the product-market-fit ASAP. The marketers and…

Successful leaders always carry special feelings for their subordinates, they also continuously look for new ways to evolve their managerial capabilities. Let’s compare the differences between what job meant to people decades ago vs nowadays and learn what modern times talents, especially when managed remotely, expect from their managers to…

Meanwhile in a Confidential galaxy: let’s review the ambitious plans, bringing privacy to DeFi and the NFT realms. Since the previous update, you’re already familiar with the format of the three lanes: Beam (the blockchain): is where innovations start, enabling the business level features in the best possible confidential way. …

It’s been a while since our previous update from September 2020 where the road to Confidential DeFi was primarily announced. BEAM has made a lot of progress since taking 2021 and we’re proud to finally share with you what’s next for Beam. Lots of fancy-schmancy pics will follow — sit…