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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

The Beginning: Redefining Communication WhatsApp’s journey began in 2009 when two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum , envisioned a platform that would provide a simple and reliable way for people to stay connected. On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.”

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Matt LeMay: A Conversation About Clarity

Mind the Product

After a product management career at Google and elsewhere, he’s now a partner in consultancy Sudden Compass with Tricia Wang and Sunny Bates, which focuses on customer centricity and communication. Start With Specifics, not the Vision. Being the First Product Manager. “I Before you know it, it’s out of control.”.

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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

Product Management teams need to pivot from asking “What do we want to build?” has a strategy tool that allows users to clearly define the vision; the “why” to your product roadmap. product/features/strategy. You can also link the product roadmap to your objectives. What is Good Product Strategy?

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What Basecamp’s implosion teaches us about organizational culture

Radical Product

First, some background As reported in The Verge , some customer service representatives at Basecamp had kept a controversial list of “funny names” since 2009 that was both inappropriate and racist. Start with a clear vision for a culture that works for all Diversity is not a vision. You can treat culture as a radical product?—?it

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Top 9 Web Design Agency in the UK in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

The agency is dedicated to bringing business visions to life using its expertise in design and marketing. A results-focused web design company established in 2009, Yeovil, UK. . Felix Michael set up Web Choice from his room in Yeovil, South Somerset in 2009. A multi-award-winning digital agency with offices in London and Essex.

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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Managing the Function.

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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Managing the Function.