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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. examples: Vanta, Lattice, Persona] Level two: Developing product-market fit. examples: Vanta, Stripe] Typically it takes four to six years to achieve extreme product-market fit.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." These are a few of my observations and personal experiences.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

link] Let's talk business Strategic Changes WhatsApp’s journey has been marked by strategic changes aimed at enhancing its value proposition and market position. Sequoia, on the other hand, reaped significant rewards when Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $22 billion in 2014. As of 2024, collectively, over 2.5

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489: Product Portfolio Management: Third of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

By understanding the essentials of portfolio management, product managers and leaders can better position their ideas, defend resources for their projects, and contribute to the organization’s success. Career Growth : Product managers are well-positioned to become leaders within their organizations.

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10 years of UX studio

UX Studio

2014: Product design course As knowledge sharing was a driving force across the team from the early days, we started our Product Design course early on. We facilitated 13 courses in a row, one in each semester starting in 2014 Autumn, up until the Pandemic interrupted our nice sequence in 2020.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

In 2014, the company smashed expectations, earning $105 million in revenue – double what they had taken in the year before. I think it’s beautiful marketing created by a mafia of companies that has existed for five decades, that has convinced the world that you should spend a huge amount of money to get crappy software.