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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In 2008 25m people watched American Idol twice a week, with great audience engagement. 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. She proposed a new strategy to the BBC “BBC out of home” which became its mobile strategy.

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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.