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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. So if we understand the Vision correctly, Uber wants people to use them as their sole source of transportation.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Their product boosts the efficiency for mass transportation worldwide with an AI-based on-demand bus platform and predictive intelligence dashboard. They plan on balancing the transport of commuters/passengers for hundreds of cities. Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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Blaise Transit, A Bain Public Client, Says 'No Problem' Heading Into 2023!

Bain Public

As a smart Mobility start-up, they developed solutions to optimise and revolutionize public transport systems and services. Built on pillars of sustainability, innovation and inclusion, Blaise Transit improves and optimizes the user experience for multi-passenger vehicles fleet operators. This round allowed the company to raise $2.4

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. This was called the “peer-to-peer” model that created millions of new rideshare drivers, and was quickly copied and popularized by Lyft and then Uber.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

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. Who was deciding on that output? We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. There’s now 10,000s of focus who are experts on transportation, marketplaces, mapping, autonomous floating out there. From an investor standpoint, myself, @fffabulous @akad have all joined venture firms ready to invest in the next generation.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. There’s now 10,000s of focus who are experts on transportation, marketplaces, mapping, autonomous floating out there. From an investor standpoint, myself, @fffabulous @akad have all joined venture firms ready to invest in the next generation.