Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Raaz was one of the first five employees at Wiz, joining as the first product manager, and helped the team pivot to what may be the most intense PMF in history. Before Wiz, Raaz led security products at Microsoft, including Azure Sentinel.

Startups

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The product manager’s roles and responsibilities Being a product manager often means balancing multiple priorities. We’re everywhere at once – crafting product vision , digging into customer research, and somehow keeping engineering, marketing, and sales teams all moving in the same direction.

Onboarding KPIs

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hilary Gridley is the director of product management at WHOOP, where she oversees the core product team, including AI, Health, and Coaching initiatives, specializing in combining AI with evidence-based approaches to help millions improve their health and performance.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 30, 2025

Early in his career, Bruce launched a promising new product, only to watch it flop. He hadn’t brought sales or marketing into the process. Despite achieving product-market fit, it failed on product-company fit. It means guiding people across the org toward a shared vision, even if they don’t report to you.

Leadership

Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Understanding the target audience is crucial to effectively tailor products to their preferences and needs. These questions uncover goals, workflows, challenges, and future aspirations while identifying market opportunities. Business goals outline user priorities and long-term vision. Here are the user goal-oriented queries: 1.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons along the way. Key insight: Hold your vision, but pivot on tactics when needed. ” The big lesson was to solve a real user need. .”

Feedback Software

Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Refine your intelligent app vision AI-driven initiatives often uncover unexpected challenges or opportunities. Starting with a PoC enables you to test your vision, mitigate risks, and unlock valuable partner funding to support your journey. It bridges the gap between conceptual promise and demonstrated impact.

Analytic Tools

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Qureshi ( 05:10 ) Palantir’s unique culture and hiring ( 13:29 ) What Palantir looks for in people ( 16:14 ) Why they don't have titles ( 19:11 ) Forward-deployed engineers at Palantir ( 25:23 ) Key principles of Palantir's success ( 30:00 ) Gotham and Foundry ( 36:58 ) The ontology concept ( 38:02 ) Life as a forward-deployed engineer ( 41:36 (..)

Research Software

Spice Catalyst

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is the second episode of Product Success Issues covering the first parts of the Product Market Strategy: Values, Vision, Mission Statement, Understanding the Customer, and Innovation.

Vision

Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Try Usersnap for Product Discovery Try Usersnap Now Connecting Product Discovery to the PDLC Product discovery is a crucial stage in the PDLC that involves: understanding customer needs identifying market opportunities defining the product vision It is the foundation of the PDLC , as it sets the direction for the entire product development process.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. What exactly is product strategy? product marketing, user research, content design, etc.).

Strategy

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. A seasoned product leader with over 5 years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development, or technology.

Research Software

Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Subscribe to David Pereira’s Substack for weekly truth bombs Book a workshop to run these Health Checks with your team Share this with a PM stuck in roadmap chaos Continuously pursue new ideas, focus on your target user’s needs, and prioritize desired outcomes to improve your product.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

This laser focus enabled quicker product-market fit, word-of-mouth growth, a clear product direction, and easier customer acquisition, demonstrating the power of precision in the early stages. Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S. When faced with a 51/49 decision, make it quickly.

CTO Coach

Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

Heres how a modern operating model must evolve to support intelligent product development: 1. Organizations need clear product vision and outcome-driven investment models that include space for experimentation, not just delivery. Strategy & structure AI isnt a strategy, its a lever.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Previously, she was a senior director of product at Big Health and a senior product marketing manager at Dropbox. Your job isn’t to get your ideas implemented but to brilliantly operationalize the CEO’s vision. You’re not the protagonist in your company’s story—the CEO is.

Leadership

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

I’m curious—what experiences have most shaped your philosophy toward product leadership?” ” This led to an engaging brainstorming session with the CEO about product vision. ” Strong: “Your challenges with product-market fit remind me of a similar situation at [Company].

Development Team Review

Product Talk

AUGUST 13, 2025

EQS Group is a B2B SaaS company headquartered in Munich, and Moritz’s team focuses on what’s next—greenfield initiatives, AI opportunities, and long-term visioning. Visualizing Product Vision—Internally and Externally Moritz isn’t just using Lovable for features on the near-term roadmap. Click the image to see a larger version.

Feedback Software

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Candidates short profile Spencer has over 7 years of experience driving product vision , strategy, and execution in AI-powered and enterprise SaaS platforms. Candidates short profile Artem has 9 years of experience in product management and product marketing, specializing in B2C web and mobile applications.

Analytic Tools

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 18, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Pragmatic Institute —Industry‑recognized product, marketing, and AI training and certifications Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer of experiences and devices at Microsoft, (..)

Government

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It’s true in a broader context, but when it comes to listening to customers, you must remember that customers give you valuable insight into their needs, but it’s your responsibility to filter that through the lens of your product vision and strategy. Start right away.

User Testing

Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

It will pay off, because you will be able to give form to your vision, and you will be able to build out a much stronger technical and product team as you grow. #2 2 Outsource for early prototyping of an MVP Andrea Barrett, Co-Founder and VP of Product at UrbanSitter There is a time and place for outsourcing development. . #6

Research Software

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Strong roadmap and product sense: can context switch between detailed work and high-level strategy/vision, ability to PM basic initiatives end-to-end. Customer centricity: to make reasonable product recommendations and have the customer at the center of decisions.

Analytic Tools

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

Vision

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Plan your product: “story mapping” (Nielsen Norman Group) Often teams rely on lengthy requirements documents to move from a vision to a product.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

User Testing

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

User Testing

Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. That’s why it’s referred to as your North Star. It never changes!

Vision

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. All products follow the same life cycle: development, growth, maturity, decline. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

Vision

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. The product-market fit.

User Testing

The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

This has been challenging to navigate as there are not many resources available on how to manage not only a maturing product but the changes that come with rapid organisational growth. As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward.

Product Research

Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. Your products and technologies are always the enabler or the vehicle that actually delivers the value to the customer. How you design and build products doesn’t change in a portfolio management model. Here’s the bottom line.

Product launches

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter.

User Testing

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It applies to a brand-new product as well as an existing one whose current strategy is no longer valid, for example, as market conditions change. This means that strategy discovery is crucial not only to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and sustaining growth.

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 26, 2023

He has also been a long-time supporter of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, which is creating cures and solutions everyone can afford for vision diseases. Ken will be sharing lessons learned from years of product innovation wisdom. Innovation is people, culture, vision, and execution.

Research Software

Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed.

Research Software