Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). Anthony Grant & Gordon Spence (2009). An Approach goal brings us towards a desired outcome. An Avoidance goal moves away from an undesired outcome.

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Centercode

JANUARY 26, 2023

I am a co-founder of Centercode, and as of 2009 I have taken on the role of CEO after spending 8 years serving as CTO and leading the design of the Centercode beta test platform. My name is Luke Freiler.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Dom & Tom About the agency: Dom & Tom was founded in 2009 by Dominic and Tom Tancredi. The company now has offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and has worked on 120 native mobile apps.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Its a mainstream concept now, but the way he talked about cloud computing back in 2009 when cloud was still “a fad” really stuck with me. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Deckle Edge. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying. E.g. for us when we were hiring – it was our CTO, who is a man – told us “ If we want to attract more women to take that job, we need to rewrite the job description. I made my way to operations, and then into product.”

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And so when that plane landed on the Hudson River back in 2009, the news broke on our website called TweetMeme. We had one of our execs in our New York office. We didn’t start with this proposition. We actually started with a proposition to build a news site that was powered by Twitter.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves. I was fortunate to be able to spend three weeks at the family lake house in northwestern Michigan in August. My son John and his wife Julie were able to join us for one of our weeks.

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