CTO Coach Leadership Startups Testing 
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 10, 2024
Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts. Be discerning about product management advice.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Should you go work at a startup?
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? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons. We've got your covered.
Hutwork
MARCH 9, 2018
He says you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests (RAT) instead because “there is no need to build more than what’s required to test your largest unknown.” You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. ” #11 Why You Are Asking the Wrong Customer Interview Questions. Author: Marty Cagan.
Product Talk
MAY 10, 2023
It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Teresa: Was that the way it was?
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