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How marketing helped Segment go from 6 months runway to a $1.5 billion dollar valuation

Intercom, Inc.

With marketing hiring projected to increase 10% by 2026 , this might look easy. But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. Teams can be stretched and under-resourced.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Is product development a competitive sport inside your company?

People-First Product Leadership

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”