Beating the competition in payments: the role of network effects | Diego dos Santos, Director of Product Management, Mastercard
May 17, 2024
In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Diego dos Santos, Director of ‘pay-by-bank’ Product Management at Mastercard. Together, they discuss product growth strategies for international software products.
In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Diego dos Santos, Director of ‘pay-by-bank’ Product Management at Mastercard.
Together, they discuss:
- The product growth priorities when you first start in a new company
- The race to keep costs low in order to keep prices cheap
- The dangers posed by disintermediation
- Assessing risks in the network
Diego has been a Director of Product Management at Mastercard for four years now, after three years at Zonal Retail Data Systems. His career in product and business development has seen him live everywhere from São Paulo to Scotland.
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Previous guests include: Jean-Baptiste Gehin, Head of Product at N26; Shahzad Shaikh, Head of Product Management, Growth, Mobile, and Customer Engagement, Asana; Mauricio Monico Chief Product Officer at Wish; Derek Boman, Head of Product Design at Avant; Lucas Thelosen, Former Head of Product, Data and AI Cloud at Google; Marc Esmiley, FS Product Director at Microsoft; Diego dos Santos, Director of Product Management at Mastercard; Manlio Lo Conte, Advisor at xZwift and Meta; Sanah Ansari, Director of Product at Capital One; Kam Star, Chief Product Officer at Chaos; Meg Watson, Product Lead at Doordash; Daniel Lereya, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Monday.com; and many others.
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