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The Product Guy
MAY 23, 2025
The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.
The Product Guy
OCTOBER 9, 2018
First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.
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The Product Guy
AUGUST 1, 2019
What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.
Lenny Rachitsky
MAY 20, 2025
Along the way, he helped Square scale from a late-stage pre-IPO startup to $3.6 Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. How do I help line managers deal with IC performance issues on their team instead of dealing with them myself?
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 12, 2021
While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.
Product Talk
JANUARY 17, 2024
This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.
Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 5, 2021
One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.
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