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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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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. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Professional Spotlight: Zoe Chaves of Splitwise

The Product Coalition

In early 2015 I earned the promotion to product manager. What do you use to help yourself and your team stay on track? The Splitwise mobile team uses Github quite heavily. Sarah Tavel , Merci Victoria Grace , and Andrew Chen have all had a big impact on my work, to name just a few. What are some of your favorite tools?

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Top 9 Web Design Company in 2023

UX Studio

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Anjelika Kour founded the women-owned web design company in 2015.

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Top 9 Web Design Company in 2023

UX Studio

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Anjelika Kour founded the women-owned web design company in 2015.

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Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December

Andrew Chen

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. It was 2015 in December, and on a Friday evening, the office was buzzing. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. I hope you enjoy it!

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.