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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over?—?and For smaller companies it’s typically competitors who pose the largest threat. A product should be cut when a product’s purpose is met by a similar product of higher growth potential.

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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

In fact, Steve Jobs had a hard time convincing the rest of the organisation because the data did not support his vision. In 2005 the most popular “smart” phone by far was the BlackBerry — fondly known as the Crackberry. Today, we know that the iPhone became a huge success, but before its launch, it was not clear at all.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. As you learn more about your users, your product vision should evolve in tandem. This is why… You Are Not All That. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager.

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Alarmed About AI?

Crafty CTO

Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005. Kurzweil, Vinge, and Joy all painted bleak visions of the future of humanity–in a nutshell: We’re doomed. Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Once they are out, they are out.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

With a vision to deliver legal consultation to people in need as quickly as an ambulance, Bengo4 made a difference in the conventional industry where technology almost had never been applied. Also, early this year, Kudan announced its partnership with Synopsys to accelerate the development of an intelligent computer vision processor.