Wade G. Morgan

AMA: Airtable Product Strategy & Operations Lead, Wade G. Morgan on Product Strategy

February 17 @ 9:00AM PST
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Airtable Product Strategy & Operations Lead, Wade G. Morgan on Product Strategy
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 17
For us, product strategy stems from company strategy, so it's first important to have a firm grasp on where the company strategy is headed holistacally, and why. Additionally, we serve as a partner function for the entire ProdDev org, so rather than owning a specific segment of the product, we're......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 17
Love the spirit of this question, and will broaden it a bit to "how do you balance market needs with the vision your company may have?" Prior to shifting to Product Strategy & Ops, I was hired as the 2nd Account Executive at Airtable. I found this experience so valuable because I had a front row......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 17
This is a natural question and I would specify the question a bit to say "how do we validate that our product strategy is the right one for us?"  Might seem like a small delineation, but the truth is, no one strategy is right for every company or product. What works amazingly for one company cou......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 17
Our mission as a team is to clarify & accelerate the product roadmap. For us, clarification means a couple things: 1. Do we know what we aspire to invest in over the next quarter, half year, or FY? 2. Have we clarified our decision / prioritization framework of what causes an initiativ......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 17
Love this question as well, and I'll approach it from a couple different perspectives. First, I'd acknowledge that some markets are so big or fast growing that multiple amazingly successful winners can emerge. As of today, Apple is worth $2.8T and Microsoft is worth $2.25T. While I'm sure both co......Read More
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