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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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. What happens when company leadership fails to provide actionable high-level goals? CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. Teams, you’re empowered!”

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

A few more examples are Fab, Klout, AppSumo, GitHub, Basecamp and Opera, among others. When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. Billion-dollar Skype did it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? Myself and our CTO have been side-by-side in leading and working with our small caretaker team. So look out for your team and for yourself, know when to call it a day and take a breath, be deliberate and lead by example! Have a co-captain.

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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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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. Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). The Employee (The End User).

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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. Because of this, it is easy for their value to be overlooked by leadership. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, a team might spend a year focused on increasing engagement. I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership.

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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. create a path to executive leadership. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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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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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 Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, their network of realtors will give advice that’s consistent with what they teach and won’t encourage fans to buy homes they can’t afford. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

One example that really works on the supply side is referrals: drivers referring other drivers. You get all this free acquisition” Going back to the Dropbox example, or looking at Slack, a natural network forms where every user has the opportunity to acquire one of their coworkers. They’re very motivated by earnings.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Provide clear, actionable examples of what each core value looks like in practice, and recognize and celebrate employees who exemplify these values. Prior to Airbnb, Vlad spent a year at Zynga, where he helped grow Words with Friends to over 14 million daily active users.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Work with your design leadership to ask what steps it would take to right-size the design team’s staffing to meet your goals. Embrace Iteration. user group events.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways. And I can see how.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Technology helped us put a man on the moon, but the interface between the human and technology can have huge impact on whether or not we can take advantage of that, particularly at scale. You take, for example, the iPhone. So it’s a poignant example of the importance of human computer interaction.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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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? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. For example, suppose a freelance software engineer wants to increase their salary. We've got your covered.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one Being able to tell even yourself that you disagree with the CEO, for example, is not trivial. After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. Ray describes TikTok’s thinking as “How can I run the second half of my marathon faster than the first?”

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Leadership And last, but certainly not least, TPMs must have strong leadership. These employees rely on the strong leadership skills of their TPM to successfully guide them through the successful execution of the program.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. For example, it would be best if you had a golden ratio of the number of engineers to the number of DevOps, the number of QA, and so forth.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. It was structured such that there was an overarching set of KPIs agreed upon at the leadership level. Once that’s complete, I’m trying to let each of the teams own that and drive it forward.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” You’re a company founder and a CTO. In the very early days of Mode, there were three of us: our CEO, who was off talking to investors, our CTO, who was chained to a desk building the product, and me. What do you think of the state of your industry’s “thought leadership”?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

For example, a company may be appropriately labeled with any one of these concepts without the other two applying. In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. Consider it the price of leadership.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

For example, I appreciate Ethan Evans writing, but I was put off when I went through his post titled “ News Flash: Your boss isn't thinking about you.” His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Sound Byte.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Tom was previously the VP of Product at Snap and the chief technology officer of Pandora. He began his career in engineering at Apple, where he helped build key features that remain in iOS today.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Be mindful of ethical considerations when embracing GenAI Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial , asks executives to understand the ethical considerations of deploying GenAI. times more likely to succeed when CEOs communicate a compelling change story, underscoring the importance of leadership involvement.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. Make sense of your data.

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Arkenea

JULY 5, 2024

Nima Rad, CTO and founding team member of a fast-growing, series A startup talks about how AI is already transforming how we approach healthcare challenges, building an innovation culture in HealthTech and more. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade? Connect with him on LinkedIn here.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

Since the company was still growing, most of the product decisions were handled by the company’s CTO and co-founder. This worked for some time, but as the company grew bigger, the CTO got busier and waiting on him to review every product decision was slowing them down. Things that the product leadership believes in.

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