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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

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! After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media & entertainment, retail and financial services.

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Beats, Bootstrapping and Life – Mat Clayton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

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.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. In my book, I wrote a lot about streaming entertainment. The premise is that we’re starting with an outcome.

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TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

Product Innovation Educators

When we first came out with our Sync system (a voice-controlled entertainment/calling system), there was concern that it would be distracting and shouldn’t be allowed in vehicles. We run an annual proposal submission process that culminates in a review with our CTO.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower - Product Management

This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Our team is excited to be working at the forefront of this revolution. We love to talk to people who are considering adopting these approaches.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. 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. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms. The other problem was how to wade through all the replies.

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How Benn Stancil’s newsletter became the cure for data biz ‘thought leadership’

Mixpanel

But just because Benn tells me his writing isn’t “useful” in the ways that most content marketing strategies would hope for, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer business value alongside its obvious entertaining and edifying values. You’re a company founder and a CTO. What emerged was just what worked in my mind and what entertained me.