Jeetu Patel joins Product Love to talk about successful product teams and retention

Summary: Jeetu Patel has run every function of the business in his career. He’s done his stint in marketing, engineering, sales, and now, product. But the one thing in business that has fascinated him the most has been scale. Early in Jeetu’s career, he’d travel a lot and was constantly amazed to see certain companies that were famous in the United States, have the same level of recognition and impact in a completely different company. It inspired him to learn the global nature of the business, and how a company can transform its’ reach. This fascination led him to Box, a cloud content management company where he is currently the Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. Box was essentially the same product that served 3 employees to 400,000 employees and 14 million customers. Having a product unique enough to span that incredible spectrum is a huge challenge for any product manager. All of those segments have different requirements, so how do you even begin to adjust those? It’s a great intellectual challenge to have, and one of the most rewarding ones in his career. This week on Product Love, I sat down with Jeetu Patel, to discuss important metrics, and how to build an effective product team.