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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. Andrew currently leads Meta’s efforts in AR, VR, AI, and consumer hardware across Quest, Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and more.

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

Why do products fail, and what can the teams do to build products that customers need? And these have helped his team to understand what to build and, more importantly, what not to build for the customers. And hence its extremely important to understand what customers need and build the products accordingly.

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

Mind the Product

hitting a specific metric (revenue/users/conversion, etc). 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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Le Mans, Unabridged

Crafty CTO

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It’s shaping up to be a great race, perhaps as exciting as the classic Audi - Peugeot duels of 2006-2011. Best consumed unabridged. That’s a serious commitment of time and focus.

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Give Your Team Away: CPO Lessons from Christopher O’Donnell, CPO at Hubspot

Gainsight

A noticeable trend reveals that product, like customer success, relies on every part of the organization to deliver outcomes. Recently, Nick Mehta, CEO at Gainsight, met with Chris O’Donnell, Chief Product Officer of Hubspot, to get his view on a path into product management. ”I was their first paying customer.

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Innovate or Die: Using Technology to Avoid the Retail Graveyard

The Product Coalition

by Sergey Kizyan, CTO, Intetics Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Gymboree’s Chief Restructuring Officer James Mesterharm actually admitted that the company’s web systems were “dated and unsupported.” one that actually sold technology but failed to implement it?—?is Toys-R-Us, Radio Shack, Payless Shoes?—?all

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

Business of Software Conference

I would rather go out of business than be beholden to anyone other than myself and our customers. And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. So people’s feedback is incorporated early than ultimately a decision has to be made.