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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. “Why aren’t we getting more done?”

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. So exercising is my best friend.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

April described it as a “Mad Libs” fill in the blank exercise. . ” Recently, April sat with Ryan Toben, Senior Vice-President and General Manager for Gainsight in EMEA, and Mickey Alon, Gainsight’s Chief Technology Officer, to discuss product positioning, especially during an economic downturn. .

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

If you’re ever looking for a think-outside-the-box type of exercise that’ll test your UX chops , this post is for you. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. What starts off as your run-of-the-mill motivational speech about leadership, morphs into a riveting talk about hidden expectations of leaders.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. Artifacts from those exercises cover most of the bases. Step Two: Determine KPIs.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for. When everyone on the team shares this foundational understanding of our personas, everyone can feel empowered to make decisions without explicit sign-off from myself or leadership, which allows us to move faster.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. When these criteria are met, the betting table becomes a place to exercise control over the direction of the product instead of a battle for resources or a plead for prioritization.”

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Teresa: In the earlier days, your leadership team was saying, “This is the feature we need for this customer.” Who was deciding on that output?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Now he’s the CTO. Taking care of my mental health with exercise and hobbies. Then I spoke with Jason Cohen and you know him he started SmartBear. He sold that and then he started WPEngine. He came here last year I think. And he hired a CEO. He has no direct reports, kind of the Dharmesh model. Nighttime classes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In our conversation, we discuss: How she originally landed at Facebook The evolution of Facebook’s growth team and key metrics Lessons from working with Mark Zuckerberg Insights from Facebook’s activation metric and retention strategies Leadership lessons and “Naomiisms” for effective product management Tactics for creating (..)

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. I have done this exercise myself recently when I created a job description for my COO (still looking for one, BTW, if you can recommend someone, please send them my way here). and during?—?the the search process.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It was a really useful exercise to get a really tight plan. And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. We had one of our execs in our New York office. Making sloppy decisions. that was one of the key things we learned. But maybe they were volunteers. They’ve got choices around what they do.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

So a real world master class is hire a room in a Holiday Inn with nice fluorescent lights, get everybody to travel, come and drink rubbish coffee, listen to a lecture in a darkened room, and then do exercises. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And ultimately, what happens with the product that you’re maintaining that’s been around for a number of years is that you’re only improving it on the margins, you have to kind of launch a whole new version to really get in and like really exercise your skills. And we weren’t in that cycle with Basecamp at the time.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So all those people who say the CEOs have to get up at 5am 4am, and do 90 minutes of exercise and read 20 books, I woke up at nine this morning. And then the leads our leadership team meets for 90 minutes every Thursday. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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