Mike Arcuri

AMA: Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform, Mike Arcuri on Product Strategy

November 21 @ 9:00AM PT
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
This really depends on the maturity stage for your product. For 0-1 work in startups (new products, not-yet-released), I recommend the models explained by Steve Blank (e...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Ultimately, our job in product management is to make products that succeed in the market. So to me, that's always been the high order bit in prioritization and planning. ...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
When you're launching a new feature in an existing app, you clarify your goals for the launch. Some example goals could be:To validate that the new feature fully solves t...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Most situations don't have "one right" product strategy. Some market/product situations have several strong/good strategies. In other situations there may be no winning s...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Three ways:Writing strategy docsCollecting strategy feedback from other peopleMonitoring your product metrics to track if your strategy is workingWriting will help you cl...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
User requests are the kind of thing you should always be monitoring, but always consider in the context of your overall behavioral metrics and product strategy before rea...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
When it comes to customer behavior, you usually detect that a problem exists before you figure out why that problem exists."What people are doing" shows up every day in y...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
At Meta/Facebook we're lucky enough to have really good internal infrastructure for setting up experiments and evaluating results. So in recent years I've come to rely on...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Trends tend to be high risk, high reward. You have to be careful not to assume too much.There's a long list of heavily-hyped social media trends that turned out to be pre...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Each person in a leadership position has a unique personality and skillset. It's important they find ways to continue to offer their strengths to their team and product w...
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