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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

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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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

Are you moving towards a positive outcome, or away from a negative one? Research into Approach goals and Avoidance goals shows that if we frame our goals as a positive (Approach), we have a better chance of success and feeling positive about the experience. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”.

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Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading

Business of Software Conference

Next up: Moesta’s Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook and Christensen’s Competing Against Luck. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. I am currently reading Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker about how, despite recent setbacks, the general direction of civilization is inexorably positive for the whole of humanity.