I am Yonatan’s mentee. I am co-founder of EA IBM, EA Uwaterloo, and EA related-startup OpenPrinciples. Yonatan has been given me some critical guidance in building my startup and in transitioning my job from a Data Scientist/Developer to Product Manager/Product Owner.
How is Yonatan helpful or not helpful?
Helpful because Yonatan is good at diving deep and know how deep a career problem topic can go
Yonatan is good at taking a question and converting it into a fun challenge to enough the mentee (me) to think by himself
Yonatan is good at accurately finding and questioning my assumptions
Yonatan never enforce an idea or advice
where did I change my mind or change my plan (with my job / with my startup)
Helped me to break my assumption of “I cannot be a good PM/PO if I not a good dev first”, my previous plan was to continue to be a dev for 2~4 more years before moving to PM/PO, even though I think I am more talented/interested in PM/PO.
Helped me to pick my best focus/north-star/weekly-metics moving forward in building my startup — count how many active users do I have this week—which could have saved us months of time
By asking me a lot of challenging questions, Yonatan squished out all of my creativity in brainstorming my actions to improve our weekly-metics
Other people who are considering talking to Yonatan—and are in a similar situation to me—help you decide if you should contact Yonatan
If you need to make up your mind between different options in a tough career decision, Yonatan is very good at helping you see a clear picture, just like what he did with me.
If you are not sure you are prioritizing your focus correctly, Yonatan is great at helping you pick them by helping you find great north-star metrics, just like what he did with me.
If you have a clear career goal but do not know how to get there, Yonatan is great at helping ask you hard questions to ”squish out all of your creativity” to come up with a plan, just like what he did with me.
I am Yonatan’s mentee. I am co-founder of EA IBM, EA Uwaterloo, and EA related-startup OpenPrinciples. Yonatan has been given me some critical guidance in building my startup and in transitioning my job from a Data Scientist/Developer to Product Manager/Product Owner.
How is Yonatan helpful or not helpful?
Helpful because Yonatan is good at diving deep and know how deep a career problem topic can go
Yonatan is good at taking a question and converting it into a fun challenge to enough the mentee (me) to think by himself
Yonatan is good at accurately finding and questioning my assumptions
Yonatan never enforce an idea or advice
where did I change my mind or change my plan (with my job / with my startup)
Helped me to break my assumption of “I cannot be a good PM/PO if I not a good dev first”, my previous plan was to continue to be a dev for 2~4 more years before moving to PM/PO, even though I think I am more talented/interested in PM/PO.
Helped me to pick my best focus/north-star/weekly-metics moving forward in building my startup — count how many active users do I have this week—which could have saved us months of time
By asking me a lot of challenging questions, Yonatan squished out all of my creativity in brainstorming my actions to improve our weekly-metics
Other people who are considering talking to Yonatan—and are in a similar situation to me—help you decide if you should contact Yonatan
If you need to make up your mind between different options in a tough career decision, Yonatan is very good at helping you see a clear picture, just like what he did with me.
If you are not sure you are prioritizing your focus correctly, Yonatan is great at helping you pick them by helping you find great north-star metrics, just like what he did with me.
If you have a clear career goal but do not know how to get there, Yonatan is great at helping ask you hard questions to ”squish out all of your creativity” to come up with a plan, just like what he did with me.