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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more. The experience of building Facebook’s News Feed is a great lesson on the importance of having conviction in your vision, even when faced with initial resistance.

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Willison: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video

Crafty CTO

Pro extracting structured output from video prompts parallels my own experience using GPT-4 Vision to extract structure from heirloom recipe images (often handwritten and horribly mangled): … I’m pretty astonished by this. The ability to analyze video like this feels SO powerful.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Video and Audio Are you hosting your own video, or can we use a third-party host like YouTube or Vimeo? Are there achievements and badges?

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Ask an expert: Yariv Azatchi on adapting to challenges and driving value to users in changing times

Mixpanel

Promo is a leading video creation platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Yariv Azatchi is the chief technology officer at Promo and is the man connecting between the products and data in the company. Our company enables businesses of all sizes to promote their vision without limits through video content.

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Growing Sales In A SaaS Business | John Snyder | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, John talks about how he set about educating himself by learning from others and why he decided that his business had to have a global vision from the outset. Video, Sketchnote, & Slides below. The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in May 2018. Sketchnote.

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What Does a Successful MVP Look Like?

Mind the Product

Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! It articulates how the full vision will be delivered. Avoid the temptation to write software.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat. That’s because a well-designed video game solves for all these problems.