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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

The BBC was one of the first companies to enable content syndication, and in 2003 product manager Alex Pressland started to look at where it could be used. She teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Kate would be the first to credit a pretty amazing team, including some exceptional engineers, and the vision and courage of the founders, but I would argue that without a Kate driving for the technology-based solutions that could actually power this business, there’s a good chance Netflix as we know it never would have happened.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

The five things in the V2MOM: Your vision which is really the call to action. How do you avoid switching from ‘I’m going to set the vision and the goal’ to ‘I’m just gonna tell you what to do and you do it right now’? We had one of our execs in our New York office. I you know I started in the SaaS space in 2003.