Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

Flash Belt 2008, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. About Bain Public.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. As early as 2008, Marty Cagan wrote: “In a very real sense, every product manager is in the risk management business. Shy away from taking initiative? Initiative means “the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do”.

Product Manager

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO to address company-level product/market/leadership issues. Rich is the author of “The Art of Product Management” (2008), and founded the first Product Camp.

Workshop

NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In 2008 Facebook’s user growth hit a wall at 80M and we were having serious debates about whether any social network could ever reach 100M users. It took time to reorganize the company around these priorities and our new leadership team. We barely grew users or revenue in 2008. And the company executed like hell.”

Advertising

freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to Amy Jin , who spoke at an event by Startup Grind on Women’s Leadership , there are more CEOs named Mike than women CEOs in the world. After graduating from Keio University, Faculty of Law in 2008, Chika joined Nomura Securities working in sales, and then worked for CyberAgent, where she was in charge of PR planner.

Research Software

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

You have to understand, it was early 2008. As you can probably guess, I didn’t get the job eventually and accepted an offer from Imperva instead (which turned out to be a company with great product culture and an amazing school for product leadership). Luckily for me, I came prepared with an answer. “I

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

Created in 2008 as a question and answer site by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it has grown to become one of the primary technology communities on the web, and by far the largest corner of the Stack Exchange Network of sites, which collectively has more than 120 million monthly users. Building with – not for – community. Jordan: Cool.

Feedback Software

The Review by First Round

APRIL 1, 2021

From the pros and cons of single threaded leadership to his black box analogy for assessing a team’s performance, there are tons of tactics in here on how leaders can think differently about org design, planning and execution. He also shares several gems of advice for new engineering managers and new managers-of-managers.

Engineering

Mironov Consulting

APRIL 19, 2017

I share three personal vignettes from 2001, 2008 and 2016 to highlight why face-to-face networking is so important — and ways we can all Pay It Forward to build an even stronger product community. This short talk is about Paying It Forward and the important of personal networking in the product management community.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 24, 2018

WillowTree began in 2008, on the day that the iOS SDK was first released. To bring this kind of intensive product focus into being organizationally, you need to build the right kind of team.

User Testing

Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2009

In May 2008, I authored an article that discussed the day-to-day challenges facing the Product Manager in the Agile world. In that article, I remarked that the debate surrounding the role of the Scrum Master and Product Owner was worthy of a paper all of their own.

Reporting Tools

The Product Coalition

JUNE 7, 2019

Bruno actually had his first Product Management experience back in 2008. We teach product management, data analytics, coding, digital marketing, UX design and product leadership courses in 20 campuses across the US, UK and Canada and the world. This was Bruno Batalha ‘s case. Have any comments? Tweet us @ProductSchool !

Data Visualization

StubHub

DECEMBER 20, 2018

By Jennifer Lau, Senior Product Manager Wellesley College, 2008. It always comes back to soccer. Soccer is a game that I love and have learned from throughout my life. I have been the captain of my high school, college, business school and rec teams.

User Testing

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

I was poking at this issue back in 2008, to encourage people to abstract their problems correctly I provided a few examples, of “correctly” but not really good guidance to help people find the correct level of abstraction. The challenge, in pulling yourself up this chain of causality is knowing when to stop.

Research Software

Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

It’s looking at key leadership skills “for life, family, work, and business”. She says it became very commercial very quickly in the late 90s and post the 2008 recession has been very aggressively commercial. It’s a big meaty project.”. The bro culture that many people find distasteful has developed since the recession, she says.

Customer Experience

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

. “Over time companies that want to dominate certain categories will need to think about building a platform” Over time a lot of companies that want to dominate certain categories or have a category leadership position will need to think about building a platform. But the way that you do it is in multiple stages.

User Testing

svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.” It takes strong product leadership, in the best sense of the word, including providing a compelling product vision and strategy.

Reporting Tools

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2008, millions shifted to billions with $19.1 It’s common to make arrangements where you supply your development resource to work within another team (with their senior development leadership/code reviews/etc.) According to Godden, successful product leadership comes down to having a leader solely dedicated to a product.

Product Strategy

Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

DC : Probably one that’s not even officially a start up but I started a nice thing called ghost story and which is a browser plugin privacy browser plugin and I started that in 2008. It has a lot around servant leadership about focus on the customer and what have you.

CTO Coach

Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Scott Farquhar: Leadership in Crisis – When Stuff Gets Real. Talks from BoS USA 2008. Sarah Hatter: Support is Never, Ever, As Important As Product Development. Jim Geisman: Pricing Isn’t rocket Science – It Just Takes Some Work. Patrick McKenzie: Building Things to Help You Sell The Things You Build.

Weak Development Team

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. It was 2007, which I realized is 13 years ago, which feels like a very long time. But it’s gone by pretty quickly.

Feedback Software

Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ben and some of the Mailchimp leadership have been regulars since it began in 2008. $1B I still remember enjoying your BoS talk waaaay back in 2008. I knew exactly where he would be on those dates. At Business of Software Conference. Was it the “12 flaming hoops of VC?” It all worked out in the end!

Customer Experience

Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2018

To date, Rich has consulted to more than 100 tech companies on product organization, product leadership, and scaling for growth. In 2008, he authored, “ The Art of Product Management, ” a highly regarded work in the product management space.

Webinar

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 8, 2025

Why there is so much bad strategy In Rumelt's view, leaders have been led astray by the rising popularity of the transformational leadership movement. However, Rumelt believes that this model of leadership is missing one of the most critical responsibilities of the role: developing an effective strategy.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2025

The common AI security risks your company faces And how to mitigate them By Charles Chibueze Posted in AI Transformation , Modernization Published on: June 23, 2025 Last update: June 23, 2025 When Tony Stark, a brilliant engineer, built the Iron Man suit in the movie Iron Man (2008), he intended to use it to save lives.

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