Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. The company brought in Marty Cagan ’s team to do some training and required all product squad members and leaders to read Continuous Discovery Habits.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. This situation is very common and requires the founders to close many gaps in the way they think about product management in general and their product specifically (that’s where my mentoring services come in handy ). And are they even needed?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Laura : “Definitely. Laura : “I haven’t.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This definition resonated deeply with me a few weeks ago while connecting with several designers on their latest works. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. What are the key skills and qualities you believe are essential for a successful CTO in the healthcare tech sector?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé?

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Look to India, where an elite ecosystem of developers delivers world-class results at a fraction of domestic costs. However, when comparing all potential destinations, one country consistently emerges as the definitive leader: India. In 2025, US businesses face unprecedented challenges finding affordable, quality tech talent.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Firefly fans: definitely a reaver ship, right?) With words! Could an art model produce an acceptably good logo?

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s a 3-5 year lag, but it definitely happens. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft!

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status. Not the highest possible status, “Can It Be Tuesday Already Please?” ” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? By definition, freelance software engineers are not members of the organizations that employ them. CTOs routinely lead all the technical or engineering departments at a firm. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Teresa: Definitely. You heard about it from a friend. How was your team working?

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. The Hard Side of a network is, by definition, hard to scale. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

When seen through the prisms of business, gender and cultural politics, “balance” doesn’t have one definition. Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. It has many. to list a few.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. And when you start out you always need mentors. But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. And when you start out you always need mentors. But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s a 3-5 year lag, but it definitely happens. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft!

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

One example: the script currently runs in CLI mode with arguments, but it’s not implemented in the latest-best-Python way, and I’d definitely want to correct that. To make the project public, though, I wanted to do more significant remodeling. Typer from Tiangolo looks like a promising solution, by the way).

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. So these are the things I definitely learned – it was like how to be successful required these two things and you had to be going off real consumer challenge. And this was a great concept.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee. And then some time passes and you’re like OK definitely this person is not working out and I need to terminate them.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And Sam was, he became my first mentor right. And indirectly and he kind of like a good mentor made me work super hard.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. Don't miss out - sign up now: Transcript. I can say, who cares a lot about that value?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! definitely. So definitely give it make sure that everybody knows that it’s a phase. Natalie Nagele.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 16, 2025

Introverts are often misunderstood as unambitious—make your goals known to mentors who can advocate for you. Drawing from her extensive research and personal experience, Cain offers a powerful reframing: success doesn’t require becoming more extroverted—it demands becoming more fully yourself.

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