People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Are you a Product Manager at a crossroads - stay or go? Feeling pressure to climb the ladder but wondering if it's the right move? Or maybe you're a seasoned leader missing the hands-on nature of an individual contributor (IC) role? You're not alone. Recently I've been continually hearing from PMs questioning their path. One client at a tech giant confessed feeling lost as her boss constantly changed direction.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2025

If youve recently launched a mobile app and want to increase app users, its going to be an uphill battle. Why? Because most mobile apps lose 77% of their users within 3 days! Sure, you could blame onboarding or a clunky user interface. But the reality is that youre either not getting enough of the right users in the door, or you’re not giving them enough to stay.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

WhatsApp introduces Private Processing to enable AI features while maintaining message privacy. Users can leverage AI for tasks like message summarization without compromising security, using a confidential virtual machine and… The post WhatsApp introduces private processing to support AI features with encrypted message handling; users can use AI for tasks like message summarization securely, utilizing a confidential virtual machine within a Trusted Execution Environment appeared first on

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DevelopmentCorporate

APRIL 30, 2025

The Hidden Crisis: Why Your Customer Acquisition Costs Keep Rising The cost of acquiring new customers is a significant challenge impacting businesses of all sizes. Easily attracting new customers is becoming increasingly difficult, creating a complex and expensive landscape. This shift requires businesses to re-evaluate their strategies and find cost-effective acquisition methods.

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Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Productside

APRIL 30, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Your Product Management Career Isn’t Dead (But It Might Need a Rethink) If youve scrolled LinkedIn lately, youve seen the headlines: AI is coming for your job. Product roles are being cut. Entire teams, downsized. And with layoffs, macroeconomic whiplash, and the looming specter of recession, its no wonder product managers are wonderingwhere do I actually fit?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

If youve been in product long enough to remember when PM = glue was considered profound advice, buckle up. The role of the Hybrid Product Manager is taking center stage in 2025. The product management world is being reshaped, and its not just because of AI or remote work or whatever new frameworks trending on LinkedIn this week. Its something more foundational: how we define what makes a great Product Manager.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Wikimedia’s AI Strategy Puts Human Editors at the Helm Wikimedia Foundation unveils an AI strategy prioritizing Wikipedia’s volunteer editors by enhancing moderation and translation tasks. By automating menial work, editors… The post Wikipedia’s AI evolution: Empowering human editors to preserve truth in a tech-driven era Wikimedia Foundation redefines its AI approach by automating routine tasks, allowing volunteer editors to focus on accuracy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2025

This week, at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta launched the first version of the Meta AI app. Based on Llama 4, Meta says the standalone app is designed to offer a personalised and socially integrated AI experience. What does this mean? The app leverages data from users Facebook and Instagram accounts to provide more Read more » The post Meta launches standalone AI app appeared first on Mind the Product.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

DeepSeek’s Quiet Prover-V2 Release Sparks Speculation Hangzhou-based DeepSeek discreetly dropped its Prover-V2 model on Hugging Face, boasting 671 billion parameters and a mixture-of-experts architecture. As its new R2 reasoning model… The post DeepSeek’s stealthy Prover-V2 release hints at AI’s next leap in math reasoning: What 671 billion parameters mean for algorithmic breakthroughs appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2025

At #mtpcon London 2025, Matt LeMay, a veteran product leader and coach with a wealth of experience across major tech companies, captivated the audience with a talk about the importance of aligning product work with business impact. In a session filled with humour and actionable advice, Matt emphasised that product teams must prioritise impact over Read more » The post How you can drive business impact as a product manager by Matt LeMay at #mtpcon London 2025 appeared first on Mind the Produ

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AB Tasty

APRIL 30, 2025

Why We Chose to Adopt OpenFeature At AB Tasty, we believe a great product experience starts with smooth feature delivery and personalization. Our Feature Experimentation SDK empowers tech teams to control feature rollout and tailor interfaces to each visitor. But in todays complex, fast-moving ecosystems, interoperability is key. Thats where OpenFeature comes in.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2025

From a case study on moving from a matrix to a product-based structure to a talk on how to thrive as an AI product manager, heres a look at the most read Mind the Product articles and talks in April. A case study: How we transformed YCH Blue Digital Limited structure from matrix to product-based Read more » The post Top product management reads in April appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Culture

APRIL 30, 2025

Value Stream organizations are designed to overcome the weaknesses of Functional and Matrix orgs. Cross-functional teams report directly to a general manager in charge of a product line or market segment, shortening communication lines and making it clear who sets priorities. HubSpot product lines, for example, are led by product VPs and GMs for products like their Marketing Hub and Content Hub.

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Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2025

Your app experience makes or breaks user loyalty: the slightest improvement can boost retention and revenue. Friction points, like confusing onboarding or sluggish navigation, can turn new users into churn statistics. In addition, balancing feature rollouts, targeted messaging, and feedback loops across mobile and web often feels like spinning plates.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2025

Discover six essential lessons to grow as a senior product leaderfrom driving team performance to influencing executives and owning your career. A must-read for aspiring VPs and CPOs. Read more » The post From PM to CPO: six skills that will define your leadership journey appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2025

Getting users to download your app is only half the battle. The real challenge lies in keeping them engaged and returning for more. For marketing teams in product-led companies, that challenge goes even deeper: even though they are also responsible for KPIs such as free-to-paid conversion, upsell, and new feature adoption rates, they often dont have direct access to the in-app touchpoints where these decisions happen.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Google Invests In U.S. Electrician Training The search company plans to support educational programs for future electrical workers. This initiative responds to rising power needs driven by increased demand from… The post Google Invests in U.S. Electrician Training Amid AI Demand appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Amplitude

APRIL 30, 2025

As a data leader, learn why self-serve experimentation is better for unlocking innovation and for complementing your data strategy.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

NYC explores AI for subway platforms to predict and prevent crime, studying tech to identify potential trouble. MTA tests non-facial recognition systems to alert authorities to risky behaviors before incidents… The post NYC’s AI-powered subway cameras could foresee chaos: a futuristic step in crime prevention without facial recognition technology appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Musk Reveals Grok 3.5’s New AI Approach The upcoming AI model generates answers using internal logic. Elon Musk plans to boost computational power significantly by possibly constructing a supercomputer with… The post Elon Musk Announces Grok 3.5 With Internal Logic Answers appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Microsoft Reports Increased Profits Amid AI Spending Drop The corporation disclosed an 18% rise in earnings during the first quarter of 2025. Capital expenditures decreased by over $1 billion, hinting… The post Microsoft Profits Rise 18% as AI Spending Decreases appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Google Negotiating AI Integration With Apple The search giant is in discussions for new technology’s inclusion in future products. Judicial proceedings could impact existing financial arrangements with several major telecommunications… The post Google Negotiates AI Integration Deal With Apple appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Microsoft Unveils New Compact AI Models The corporation presented several advanced artificial intelligence systems with enhanced problem-solving abilities. One version effectively matches a more extensive competitor in benchmark tests, providing… The post Microsoft Unveils Phi 4 AI Model Rivaling Larger Systems appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Amazon Lets Companies Build Chatbots Easily Amazon’s Q Business now supports chatbots for public use. Companies can make bots for websites and support portals without user logins. Amazon’s CEO says… The post Amazon’s Q Business empowers companies to create public chatbots: a game-changer for customer engagement? appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

JetBrains Releases Mellum AI Code Model JetBrains just made its AI model Mellum available for free. Mellum, trained on 4 trillion tokens with 4 billion parameters, helps complete code. You… The post JetBrains unveils Mellum: a 4 trillion-token AI code model poised to transform software development appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Meta Plans Premium Features and Ads for AI App Mark Zuckerberg wants paid features and ads in Meta’s AI app. The app already has a big social feed with nearly… The post Meta’s AI app eyes premium tier and $72 billion AI bet: What Zuckerberg’s new strategy reveals about the future of social media appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

New Device Verifies Humans, Not AI Tools for Humanity has a new gadget to spot humans from AI. It scans your eyeball for proof and gives a unique digital ID.… The post Tools For Humanity Launches Eyeball-Scanning Human Verification Device appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 30, 2025

Meta Predicts $1.4 Trillion from AI by 2035 Meta expects its generative artificial intelligence to make up to $1.4 trillion by 2035. Theyre investing big, with a 2024 budget over… The post Meta Projects $1.4 Trillion Revenue from AI by 2035 appeared first on nextbigwhat.

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