Incubating 0 to 1 Products and story behind GameSnacks

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I’m joined by Ani Mohan from Google.

Ani leads the product team at Google Labs building three new generative AI products across (1) software development, (2) video, and (3) 3D.

Previously, Ani was co-founder and general manager of GameSnacks, a web gaming platform reaching 35M+ monthly players. GameSnacks was funded by Area 120 and acquired by Google Ads in Jan 2022.

Ani was also featured in Forbes 30 under 30 under the games section during his time leading the GameSnacks products and business.

In this episode

we talk about

1) Ani’s experience building GameSnacks as part of Area120 - Google’s incubator

2) Tips for folks looking to build 0-1 Products

3) Building products for Generative AI

This was recorded weeks before Google I/O and understandably why we couldn’t talk much about what Ani was working on. But goes without saying that Google took the challenge came out dancing and had some impressive announcements.

This has got everything - great success story and actionable advise on the hottest topic right now.

Chapters

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:02:27] Ani's Product Journey

[00:03:27] Inception of GameSnacks

[00:07:17] Incubating products within a large company vs Building a Startup

[00:10:48] Pivots in GameSnacks to reach Product Market Fit

[00:16:34] Advice on building 0->1 products

[00:20:38] What excites Ani about GenAI

[00:23:24] Building AI products

[00:30:00] Rapid Fire

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