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Case Study: Launching PayMe from HSBC

Mind the Product

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. While I was living and working in London in 2012, I noticed a recurring problem with paying back friends after a social activity.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. 2012 – the Inception. This is what we did. This is what we did.

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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. A bad plan is better than no plan." Origin of Lean Thinking. Plans Matter.

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Bob Moesta on unleashing your sales superpower

Intercom, Inc.

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”