Sahil Jain Co-founder & CEO, Samepage.ai
Meaning is not received, meaning is interpreted. People interpret a message based on their context.
Product managers keep everyone aligned from design and engineering to leadership and GTM teams, but as companies scale with distributed teams, most PMs focus on making communication more efficient — missing a deeper challenge. The real problem isn't speed; it's how information mutates as it spreads, with every handoff creating interpretation gaps and every stakeholder filtering information through their own context. Simply becoming aware of these communication mutations will transform how you manage information flow across your organization. This session explores why traditional communication approaches fail and provides practical tactics for preserving message integrity as you scale.
There’s a huge problem hiding in plain sight: we suck at communication.
Communication and the quality of your communication are the single biggest multiplier of your work.
Poor communication = chaos everywhere and results in loss, monetary and otherwise.
True communication isn’t about what you said, it’s about whether the other person understood
-Gagan Biyani CEO, Maven
The most important skill is the one we feel worst at
Cost multiplies inside and across teams as time is wasted getting people “on the same page”
Another bad communication story: For six months, there were two engineering teams working on the same feature, and both teams had no idea they were both working on the same thing.