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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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Lenny Rachitsky
MAY 20, 2025
He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. 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.
Product Talk
JANUARY 17, 2024
Sometimes they’re dissatisfied with what’s available on the market and think they can do better. 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.
Productside
APRIL 2, 2025
When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 12, 2021
If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. Even thinking about implementing a multi-cloud architecture is prematurely optimizing for practically all businesses – especially startups – and not a trap you want to fall into.
Roman Pichler
JANUARY 22, 2024
Larger companies often have several portfolios; early-stage startups, in contrast, usually have a singleton one—it consists of just one offering. No matter, which option you choose, it would be a bad idea if a single person made all portfolio decisions on their own. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.
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