I subscribe to the Ried Hoffman quote - “If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late.” How do you actually live this out in a larger company where there is internal anxiety?

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Advaita Nigudkar · Accepted Answer

This quote is easy to agree with and hard to actually live out, especially in a larger company where there are brand standards, legal reviews, and a lot of stakeholders t...

Laura Oppenheimer · Answer

So much about product management is about stakeholder management — getting everyone from engineers to exec team aligned on 1) what you are building and 2) what the goal i...

Puja Hait · Answer

Great question! My response to "At what point is a solution ready to be shipped?" applies here.  The aspect of launching a true MVP is harder in a large organization, wh...

Clara Lee · Answer

This is a tough one! While we all want to launch products with iPhone-level perfection every time, the reality in most companies – and especially for 0 to 1 products – is...

Bruno Gobbis · Answer

I definitely like this concept, and searching for this mentality in a big organization can be super challenging – I’ve been there twice, where stakeholders expect every r...

Brandon Green · Answer

I think the quote has validity in some contexts and less in others. If you are building a 0-to-1 product in a company where the culture is anxious about, say, the brand i...

Paresh Vakhariya · Answer

I am a fan of this viewpoint too. Here are some ways you can implement this internally, even in a large organization.Here are some ways I have gone about implementing the...

Anushka Anand · Answer

You work with a set of customers who are your design partners (represent your target customer base) to validate iterations of the product - the set of features, the produ...

Ashka Vakil · Answer

Reed Hoffman's quote is a reminder that it's important to get a product to market quickly, even if it's not perfect, in order to gather feedback and iterate based on that...

Hiral Shah · Answer

Great question! I do agree with Reid's quote, that said I do think your first version should still be "valuable" so then you know whether it will really solve the problem...

Deepti Srivastava · Answer

First, while I understand the sentiment, I never want to be embarresed by any version of the product my teams launch. I prefer to subscribe to the saying "perfect is the ...

Sharad Goel · Answer

Ask your leadership/marketing team what gives them anxiety and then attack those points as part of your 1st launch. For e.g. if they are worried about bad PR then ask the...

Lindsey DeFalco · Answer

#1: Trust. You have to earn it. It's all fun and games when there is "nothing to lose" and you're a small scrappy startup. But once you have paying customers, usage targe...

Leo Sadeq · Answer

I like this quote but it's a hell of a lot easier said than done when dealing with corporate bureaucracy.Id really focus on going hardcore on this: Find allies who get it...