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Mike Arcuri

Mike Arcuri

Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools, Meta

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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
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
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
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
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
I like to get as much input as is reasonable both internally and externally. Internal examples of stakeholder input: partnerships, sales, marketing, product support, ope...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
Here's a rough e2e prioritization process:Set context with the team and your stakeholders on the overall business, product stage and strategy, key problems, behavioral da...
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
One piece of advice: Understand your product, organization, and company and what each of these needs to succeed. Then do that thing (at your appropriate job scope: produc...
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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
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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Credentials & Highlights
Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools at Meta
Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups
Top Product Management Mentor List
Product Management AMA Contributor
Studied at Cornell
Lives In Seattle, WA
Hobbies include Backpacking, hiking, running, windsurfing
Knows About Building 0-1 Products, Managing Mature Products, Product Management Skills, Product M...more