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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more.

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TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

Product Innovation Educators

Choose the right university partners to drive research and innovation. To explain how their system works and tips for implementing a partner program, Ed Krause joins us. He is the Global Manager External Alliances Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. In 2006, we added Michigan and Northwestern to the program.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

learning new software. learning new software. And with research showing that people who set goals are more likely to succeed than those who don’t, we should be all good… right? Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. getting a promotion.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

Jason Fried is co-founder of Basecamp, a private company based in Chicago that builds the best web tools possible with the least number of features necessary. We’re best known for our product Basecamp which is a project management and collaboration tool We just launched a new thing called Hey recently which is a brand new email service.

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

A few days back, I was chatting with a product manager at one of the biggest software companies of our time. Upon investigation, it turned out that automation was possible just by tweaking the systems. In fact, upon more profound research, it turned out that this automation wasn’t necessary at all.