How Jacqueline Karlin Turns Purpose into Products at PayPal, Meta, Amazon
Between Product and PartnershipsShow Notes
How do you turn mission into products that actually work? In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Pandium CEO Cristina Flaschen sits down with product leader Jacqueline Karlin to unpack how mission-driven thinking translates into real-world execution across vastly different scales. From small business lending at Amazon, to global expansion on Alexa, to early conversational commerce at WhatsApp, Jacqueline shares concrete examples of how anchoring on customer problems shapes bette...
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