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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more. Andrew currently leads Meta’s efforts in AR, VR, AI, and consumer hardware across Quest, Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and more.

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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. We had been experimenting towards a very concrete goal for two months, and had made a lot of progress. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan.

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Time To Say Goodbye – 4 Lessons The BoS Community Taught Me

Business of Software Conference

It’s strange to think that in a few short hours I’ll press ‘End Meeting For All’ for the final time, and that’ll be it. Lesson #1 – Make Your Users Awesome. The first BoS video I watched was Kathy Sierra’s seminal talk from BoS USA 2012, ‘ Building The Minimum Badass User ’. Lesson #2 – You Are Not An Impostor.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

Fighting Words What Gruber said next, though, bothered me: I am very uncomfortable with the fact that nearly all Mastodon servers are free-to-use volunteer efforts, funded by voluntary donations. Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. It is also about the same time that working with R&D becomes more intense , so a lot of project management is needed. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Its clients include Nestle, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, AOL, Time Warner, American Red Cross, and many other prominent businesses. Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award in 2017 , five W3 awards, People’s Choice Webby Award in 2018, and the Appy Awards Winner? Gold 2016, are among them. They’ve been using their heads.”?