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100

This is the smallest version of a product built to test the core assumption with minimal resources.

MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

100

Difference between low, med, and high fidelity prototype?

  • Low fidelity: bare-bones structure, just shapes and no text
  • Medium fidelity: text elements, rounded edges
  • High fidelity: buttons, scrolling, interaction logic, some elements of color and font
100

What is React?

Javascript library for building UIs

100

Where was Eesha last semester?

Singapore

100

Which fintech product category is primarily responsible for allowing businesses to accept online payments without building their own payment infrastructure?


Payment processors. Payment processors like Stripe and PayPal handle the heavy lifting: securely transmitting card data, communicating with banks, and confirming transactions.

200

This term represents the total global revenue opportunity if your product captured 100% of the market.

TAM (Total Addressable Market)

200

What is a User Flow?

  • Map out stakeholders and objectives
  • Determine what the user wants to know
  • What the user sees / what the user does →  sees next / does next
200

What is a React Component?

  • Reusable: used throughout applications
  • Self-contained: each component owns its own logic
  • Composable: build complex interfaces by combining small components
200

Who ate their twin?

Nidhi

200

What core behavioral design principle explains why apps like Venmo include a public transaction feed?

 Social proof. The public feed on Venmo leverages social proof. Seeing others use the app reinforces trust and normalizes behavior. Payments quietly turned into a social network.

300

If this number is lower than CAC, your business model is not sustainable long-term.

LTV (Lifetime Value)

300

What test do you use to validate a design?

A/B testing

300

What contributes most to rendering latency when React updates state?

DOM

300

What is Kavin’s favorite drink?

curious borg

300

Which technology enables secure communication between fintech apps and banks without sharing user credentials directly?


OAuth

400

You launch a new fitness app. 10,000 users sign up in the first month, but 85% stop using it after one week.

As a Product Manager, what is the MOST critical problem you need to solve first?

Improving retention (or solving for Product-Market Fit)

400

What does the branding color blue represent?

trust, dependability, security, and professionalism

400

var numbers = [1, 2, 3]
numbers.append(4)
numbers[0] = 10
print(numbers.count)

4

400

what’s Athulya’s fave VC

Anthropic

400

When you tap your card at a payment terminal using NFC, which security mechanism ensures the merchant never receives your actual card number?


Tokenization

500

You are building a new two-sided marketplace app that connects tutors and students.

Your team assumes:

  • Tutors are willing to sign up.

  • Students are willing to pay.

  • There are enough tutors in each city to meet demand.

  • Matching can happen instantly.


You can only test ONE assumption first.

Which assumption should you test first, and why?

Whether supply (tutors) will join the platform. Without the supply, the marketplace will not work.

500

Grouping together elements in Figma creates what?

Component

500

What is an S3 bucket?

A container used to store objects (files and metadata)

500

What was the score for the bball IM game we won?

53-4

500

In an open banking ecosystem (such as the PSD2 framework in Europe), what is the role of a TPP (Third-Party Provider)?

To provide regulated access to bank data via APIs with user consent. Under PSD2, a TPP (Third-Party Provider) can access banking data only with explicit user permission. This is what fuels open banking ecosystems across Europe.