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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & Operations • February 16
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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Sandeep Rajan
Patreon Product Lead, Member Experience • February 23
I think of this in two ways best conveyed through a sports metaphor: learning new plays I can add to my playbook, and building reps so that I can figure out what the right play is for a given scenario. For the first, I enjoy reading about strategy – lots of Stratechery, various strategy books, ......Read More
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Sandeep Rajan
Patreon Product Lead, Member Experience • February 22
This sounds to me like your sales team doesn't believe the target market is big enough and/or the right market. It's hard to believe in a product strategy unless you agree on who it's for, so the first thing I'd do here is to get everyone aligned on who you're building for & why, and then articul......Read More
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Sandeep Rajan
Patreon Product Lead, Member Experience • February 22
We leave it to each team to figure out what helps them balance flexibility with clarity to achieve their maximum speed of execution. We do our best to have a common language around goals, strategy & measuring progress, but largely leave it to teams to figure out how best to build & ship given t......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • November 21
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 while also doing the job of a leader: providing direction and clarity, supporting team members of various skill levels and senio......Read More
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Kie Watanabe
HubSpot Group Product Manager • October 13
Lots of balancing! Balancing effectively summarizes the job of a PM. Jokes aside... Balancing user requests v. optimal design I pay much closer attention to the user's pain (vs. the user's request). Abstracting the problems we’re trying to solve creates room for the team to take in further......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • November 21
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.g. customer development process, business model canvas). There are so many unknowns and intertwined hypotheses for brand new p......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • November 21
When you're launching a new feature in an existing app, you clarify your goals for the launch. Some example goals could be: 1. To validate that the new feature fully solves the "user problem" it was designed to solve 2. To learn about demand for the new feature 3. To test relevance of t......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • November 21
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 these internal tools. At other companies, I've used analytics and optimization services like: 1. Google Analytics/Firebase ......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & Operations • February 16
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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