Varun Parmar

Chief Product Officer, Miro, #1 Visual Collaboration Platform

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Great insights from @levie ….

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Once a decade or so in tech we get an industry-realigning platform shift, and today we're fortunate enough to all be living through the AI wave. When these moments occur, you have a brief period of a few years where the winners and losers will emerge in almost every category, which means you're essentially signing up to be going 24/7 during this window.

When we first started Box right at the beginning of the cloud wave, for the first couple of years until we could at least feel like we had reached a point of "survival", we worked nonstop. Coding, selling, marketing, partnering, fundraising, hiring, pivoting, launching, everything. Sure, looking back we could have avoided 16-18 hour days by avoiding the time wasted on what would ultimately be useless work, bad decisions, or strategic misadventures. If we could go back and delete them from our calendars, we'd get all that time back.  

But, it's impossible to know in the moment which is the wasted time and effort. The good decisions came as a result of pivots from the bad ones, and the misadventures only taught us how to be smarter in the future. There's basically no way we could've "worked smarter not harder" and achieved any similar outcome. And perhaps most importantly, we had a blast doing it -- sure it was straining, but we certainly wouldn't have worked that hard if we weren't at least *mostly* having fun.

Now back to AI. There's probably more change happening at an even faster pace in AI than some of the biggest prior platform shifts like cloud and mobile. In comparison to cloud and mobile, there are billions of people that instantly can use AI so the markets are larger to start; there are more major platform providers competing for prime positions in the market; and there is a far higher rate of breakthroughs that advance the state of the art.

So when you're in the middle of one of these windows like we're in with AI, the only thing you can do is just crank. It will by no means ensure success, but it will definitely improve your odds, which generally are quite low to begin with. So take every advantage you can get. And you’re not having fun doing it, you probably shouldn’t!

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Great insights from @WayneNH at IDC. https://t.co/UlWKBhxDQi

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Miro is now a game development platform... "Super Miro Bros" brought to you by our amazing community member: Said Saddouk https://t.co/ysm2I0vkMF

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

This past week at Atlassian Team 23 conference in Las Vegas Miro launched (GA availability) a slew of new capabilities that make scrum teams more productive.

* Does your team find it challenging to do cross-team dependency management?  
* Do you believ…https://t.co/ODO5iBCW7f

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

It was a lot of fun to chat with @lennysan about how Miro builds products. Thanks for having me on your podcast! https://t.co/o543ZH2o0I

[Miro @MiroHQ]

Join @vparmar230 and Peter Parkes at the Atlassian Team '23 event.

Discover how to embrace modern ways of running Agile practices to build more collaborative, effective teams that deliver the greatest products and services.

Register: https://t.co/CuPs79L5i3

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Today we launched Miro AI, a set of capabilities that enable teams to auto-magically create mind maps, sequence diagrams, summaries of content in sticky notes, smart clustering, explain code in 14 different programming languages, and much more. Continuing…https://t.co/Ag9LnxVnTb

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Miro's product team is passionate about solving our customer problems by delivering delightful and intuitive capabilities and product experiences.

Continuing with this trend, last week, we made a number of announcements that ena…https://t.co/PTurFqTTO7 https://t.co/KdJUgVdJmu

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

It’s a wrap for Miro Distributed 2022! 

So incredibly excited to partner with Briana Rogers to announce a number of ** big and new ** product updates, including:

- Embedded Dashboards: Add charts, dashboards, or BI visualizations into a Miro board as li…https://t.co/jtsYocPGkW

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Distributed 2022, Miro's annual community event, is on Nov 15-16. We've lined up some really amazing product announcements with attendees getting exclusive **early access** to our new, cool features :)

Join Briana Rogers, Miro's head of product marketi…https://t.co/ngoGpjwLiS

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

It was a lot of fun last week to hang out in Miro's Munich hub and meet the incredibly talented and energetic DACH team. Well-timed with #octoberfest Love the #lederhosen! https://t.co/cNRx0Jjode

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Distributed 2022, Miro's annual community event, will take place on Nov 15 - 16. Get ready to interact and learn from 50,000 other attendees, 30+ hours of content, 35+ sessions... All delivered online to meet your hybrid/remote work styles.

I can't wai…https://t.co/AwVso9Y5vd

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

This week was very special at #miro

Mironeers all the world met in person* for a two-day event focused on bonding, learnings, and reflections. I had the good fortune to meet over 500 of them in Austin and the level of energy was unprecedented and conta…https://t.co/DjLM0wQ2Uf

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

As part of Breakthrough Builders, I had a blast talking to @jsp311 (SVP, Head of Brand, Qualtrics) about "Continuity in Collaboration" and my 20+ years of learnings as a product manager and leader. https://t.co/UKlLnWcpop

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Jump from "what's now" to "what's next"...

Join us on Wed, May 18 to learn from industry leaders like @jpatel41 (Cisco), @meganwcook (Atlassian), David Citron (Google), Ilan Frank (Airtable) and many more.

We'll demo brand new c…https://t.co/IcCIW06ll6 https://t.co/0HDF3r2jmD

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Thank you @MeetaKPatel for a great partnership! We're so excited to support Under Armour ... enabling team collaboration and employee engagement in a hybrid-first world. https://t.co/81jgRVfTe2

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

Great opportunity for a technical product leader to define and drive the core platform services roadmap for one of the largest collaboration platforms. Interested in learning more? https://t.co/HpaOglna5w

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

@ThorMitchell does this meet our “high quality” bar? Inside #miro joke :)

[Varun Parmar @vparmar230]

The pride you feel when your second grader son writes up code (or something that resembles like one) as a way to kill time on a 2 hour flight.