The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. In my case, for example, I built 4 scenarios: Actual allocation – the situation we were at the moment of the presentation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For example, the C-Suite has a median salary band of $275,000-$299,999 and a wide salary range from $50,000-$599,999. Below is a different view of the same data on the distribution of salary for U.S. product managers across levels.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 6, 2025

Use “signposting” to guide your audience: Words like “for example,” “because,” “as a next step,” and “first, second, third” help readers navigate your ideas without excessive formatting. Even the act of noting these examples trains you to recognize effective patterns.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2022

There shouldn’t be a limit to what types of transactions can be done on your phone,” Tom House, CTO at Noble. How Mobile Customer Loyalty Programs Increase Customer Retention and Drive Revenue (with Examples). Data included: Ratings and reviews. Interaction and response rates. Popular phrases. Consumer sentiment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 11, 2024

Simplify security | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Sam Schillace is deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Brought to you by Teal —Your personal career growth platform | Vanta —Automate compliance.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Instead, they provide a product portfolio, think of Microsoft Office/365 as an example. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy. Let’s take Microsoft as an example again. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. But that’s still not enough.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

— Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Simplify security.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Claire describes a classic example of overlap: “As a junior product designer, I was curious about doing in-depth data research, writing Jira tickets, or even participating in creating my squad’s roadmap. Claire said that her squad (the “red squad”) began to emerge as an example of a strong trio. What exactly did this mean?

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Piyanka Jain

JANUARY 31, 2020

Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-driven I was talking to a CTO of a Fortune 100 bank this morning and we got talking about feature engineering in AI/ML models. For example, in the case of a supervised classification 0/1 problem, many use LASSO now to identify features of importance instead of using the correlation matrix (stat approach).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

For example, webcams with built-in facial detection sometimes don’t detect people with darker skin , because they were only tested on people with lighter skin. The letter got resounding support, including a rousing endorsement from our co-founder and CTO, Ciaran Lee. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. The CIO or CTO may not be the budget holder, but they may control the purchasing decision. The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 23, 2024

Wali Khan, a healthcare technology leader with over two decades of experience enabling business capabilities through the development of innovative software products and solutions talks about the role of AI in current and future projects, what it takes to be a successful CTO in the healthcare sector and more.

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Piyanka Jain

JANUARY 31, 2020

Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-driven I was talking to a CTO of a Fortune 100 bank this morning and we got talking about feature engineering in AI/ML models. For example, in the case of a supervised classification 0/1 problem, many use LASSO now to identify features of importance instead of using the correlation matrix (stat approach).

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Without further ado, let’s dive into the 10 best loading page examples from SaaS companies. Some examples of loading pages by SaaS companies: Userpilot, Heap, Mural, WeTransfer, Slack, Intercom, Productboard, UIPath, and Figma. As a result, I got these 5 steps from Cristian Vitales, the CTO and Co-founder of FindThatLead.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

These three examples all had different routes to market and each route took many months to discover. The three example MVPs are all completely different – and that’s how it should be. I’ve just finished a project that involved scoping an MVP for a technologically complex new product. Not at all.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

At Mind the Product, for example, we’ve seen a 26% year-on-year increase in numbers of people interested in coming to our ProductTanks. A quick LinkedIn search ahead of APAC week , for example, showed there were nearly 19,0000 open roles across AsiaPac for product managers or heads of product. But the region is playing catch-up fast.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Yariv Azatchi is the chief technology officer at Promo and is the man connecting between the products and data in the company. I am the CTO, which means I’m sitting at the intersection between technology, product, and data. Promo is a leading video creation platform for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. For example, only the original operations team had any form of compensation for doing on call shifts other than time off in lieu. The history of on call at Intercom.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Let me explain what I mean with an example. I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? Take this example of two competing efforts: The blue line, ”A” represents a big opportunity (with 1–3x range in value , and could take 100–180 days. I resisted.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

For example, they created an example study plan and used a Pendo guide to ask learners whether it was valuable or not. The CTO in particular was really excited about the data they had gathered, saying they’d been looking for this type of information for a long time. “It

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 2, 2024

” — Caitlin Colgrove , co-founder and chief technology officer at Hex “Most people think about AI-assisted services in terms of the model quality, but model quality is just a tiny piece of the total product. The evolution of our Magic Media feature is a great example of this.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 22, 2024

Wali Khan, a healthcare technology leader with over two decades of experience enabling business capabilities through the development of innovative software products and solutions talks about the role of AI in current and future projects, what it takes to be a successful CTO in the healthcare sector and more.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Examples of User Personas in the B2B Space. The success of a sales team, for example, might be defined as growing revenue, market share (new accounts) and wallet share (add-on products to existing customers). Examples of B2B Buyer Personas. The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). The Employee (The End User).

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Let’s move away from tech and use the vision to build a profitable and sustainable business in textiles and manufacturing as an example: Perhaps the manufacturer has been receiving feedback from clients requesting a faster turn-around time to meet their cycle requirements.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S. This iterative approach helps you gather knowledge without aiming for perfection right away. When starting out, extreme focus on a specific customer profile can drive faster success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? For example as a product manager, I like to always pay down tech debt as we go. For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

For example, Product Managers play a crucial role in product adoption and user growth, but these successes are often attributed to design or marketing teams. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO. Sometimes, product leaders come from a technical background and tend to lean towards technology.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. Some examples of cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project?

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Marc Brown, HealthTech Founder and CTO with 20 years of experience building products and leading engineering teams talks about agentic workflows in healthcare, staying curious to foster innovation in tech teams and qualities that make a successful CTO. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

I’ve organized my explanation into three parts: Introducing an example. Introducing an Example. Let’s go back to the ProdBook example. This was an example with only one testimonial. Testimonial Driven Development Explained. So how does Testimonial Driven Development work? Testimonial anatomy. That’s it.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. How do we fix it?”

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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. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. I salute Apple, for example, for sticking to their in-person culture now that the pandemic is long gone.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. A line-by-line strategy is handed off to the team, generally with good intentions, but this strategy represents the ideas of the CTO or CPO, it’s not the team’s ideas. Leadership micromanages the team as opposed to empowering it through an actionable vision to guide execution.

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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? For example, suppose a freelance software engineer wants to increase their salary. For example, you will likely stop writing code yourself at this stage. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? We've got your covered.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) IBM inventor shares how to innovate without costly R&D.

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