The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 6, 2025

Give feedback using “strategy, not self-expression”: Focus on motivating behavior change rather than venting your frustrations. Speak with accurate confidence: Don’t overstate hypotheses as facts or understate strong recommendations. Match your conviction level to the evidence available.

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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. The first rule of strategy is to write it down. Simplify security.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

For example in the early phases of development the CTO will more likely have the role of a key stakeholder, in the phase of commercialisation eventually the Commercial leadership team will require significantly more regular check-ins and support from the PM to adjust the tasks around the product effectively.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Surely we’ve all noticed the increased emphasis on “strategy” as a core competency for product managers? 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. CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

They operate independently with a product development team, maybe on a smaller product or area, and under the leadership and mentorship of a more senior product manager. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Your career will benefit from being in environments with strong talent and leadership, even if the company isn’t perfect. Don’t stress over having a five-year plan. Instead, focus on where talented people you respect are working.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Drawing upon a rich vein of experiences — from leadership roles in engineering to insightful albeit brief stints as a founder and CTO and steering roles focusing on morphing concepts into market-ready products — my tenure in this vibrant ecosystem has been incredible.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role? One way to do so is as part of the CPO Bootcamp , where the participants learn the deep aspects of product strategy and get explicit guidance on building it for their own products. and crosses all domains. It is not an easy role?—?both

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

The true role of product management is to focus on managing and aligning the product strategy with the company direction. 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. Is this a winning strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Darragh Curran , our Chief Technology Officer, emphasizes how promoting diversity has to be more than just a question of how we hire. Diverse teams are repeatedly proven to be more innovative, productive, and happier.”. Investing in education.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. See Leadership Tip #9: See and Stop MicroManagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). The team and the product leaders implement that strategy. They use power-over , not power-with to decide. When people decide for others, they micromanage.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. Though not necessarily a bad thing, it fails to represent the overarching company strategy. Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer).

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need. How many/how long?”

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

Typically, cloud architects are responsible for designing and building the cloud technologies of their firms. They are also expected to play a central role in developing and establishing a company's cloud computing strategy. Chief Technology Officer Truth be told, this position does not require much introduction.

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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. This program would be made up of several projects with similar goals at every phase of the program's lifecycle, from strategy creation to execution to delivery to completion.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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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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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

As a result, its product team plays a central role in strategy and decision-making. Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. There is no rule that a product-led organization must adopt a product-led growth strategy. These results make sense.

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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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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. They need both technical expertise and managerial soft skills like communication and leadership.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a result, the CPO can facilitate product-led growth by developing a vision and strategy that fosters seamless production. These goals will be clearly defined in a product vision statement, which should make sure your team “gets excited about building the product” Developing a product strategy. Leadership.

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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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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. But is that the right strategy for your business? What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy. Marty advocates for a return to the traditional product model, where product leaders concentrate on strategy, and product managers drive discovery and deliver solutions that generate value for both customers and the business.

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