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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

The quote is attributed to Ford himself for the first time in a letter sent to the UK publication Marketing Week in 2001: “Being market-led implies being led by the consumer — and consumers are bad at coming up with innovations (Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” springs to mind…).”

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

After spending some time as a consultant and analyst, she made the move to product at Upromise, where she was The VP of Product Marketing and Management. A year later, in 2006, she went on to found Care.com, and for the last 14 years she has held the position of Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

Finally, the product management software organization Pendo in their State of Leadership report states that 44.7% of product managers report to the CMO (the most), while 6.7% report to ‘Product’ (the least). I believe that product management and especially product marketing ARE marketing roles first and foremost.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. About Paul Ortchanian.

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

29 Product Leaders You Must Follow Julie Zhuo is Product Design VP at Facebook. She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006. Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Follow what she’s up to via her LinkedIn profile.

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

Business of Software Conference

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically.

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14 years building BoS

Business of Software Conference

While we’re reminiscing in hindsight, if you were to go even further back all the way to 2006, before your first BoS conference, what would you tell yourself? Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So that’s a good thing. Kirk Baillie.