Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Kate Leto, Product Coach.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

And you know what they say as well – at some point the CEO has to step back and take a strategic role so they have time to do visioning and look at the market and not be involved in the day to day of the operation. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. That’s the proper answer. Loneliness.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

But facts I’ve discovered that many companies just ask a design team to execute on the vision. So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). In fact just do this bit here. So this is a quote.

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