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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Incompatibility. Tech costs.

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Shifting From Managing By Outputs To Managing By Outcomes | BoS 2019

Business of Software Conference

So I was a startup CEO from 2009 to 2011, somebody else’s startup- I don’t recommend becoming the CEO of somebody else’s startup it’s not very fun – and I learned which I’m sure many of you have had this experience that I’ve been talking with people on my team and I was expressing an opinion.