Video · ~90 min

Product Thinking Workshop ft. Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi

Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi · CRED (YouTube) Free Intermediate India

Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi work through how to decide what to build using first principles and user psychology, in an Indian product context. It pushes you past feature lists toward understanding the underlying human need your v1 must serve. A rich session for founders who want sharper judgment about what actually matters.

  • Understand the human need before deciding which features express it.
  • First-principles thinking helps you drop features that only exist out of habit.
  • Clarity on the core problem makes cutting everything else much easier.

The question it answers

  1. How do I decide which features to cut from v1?

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