Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 3, 2024
The experience of building Facebook’s News Feed is a great lesson on the importance of having conviction in your vision, even when faced with initial resistance. Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership.
Melissa Perri
JULY 14, 2016
When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. In smaller companies, this will be your company and product’s overall vision. “What is your Product Strategy?
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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). Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.
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. I do think one thing that’s a leader’s responsibility, whether or not you’re a manager or not, is that you have to provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
We spent most of 2017 building it out. The vision? And then, start small – take that bigger vision or dream, break it down into the smallest pieces, and keep scoping back, back, back, back, back, until you have the smallest coherent solution. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.
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. If you haven’t seen his talk it’s about these sort of post-tax it feelings and it’s from London 2017.
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. First of all product is about shaping the future and inspiring the world with the product vision – No I don’t see a roadmap here – and I call this build the right thing. In fact just do this bit here.
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