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TL;DR Marty Cagan argues AI changes product work in two distinct ways: adding AI to a product, and using AI to change how the product is built2.
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“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build trustworthy AI diagnostic tools in one of medicine's most historically under-researched areas? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Tulsi Patel (Director of Product and Technology), Lorna Brightmore (Head of”
Teresa Torres interviews the founders and CTO of Snapbar, a 14-year-old company that started as a wedding photo booth business, pivoted to a virtual product when COVID eliminated its events, and then rebuilt itself…
Julie Zhuo writes to people about to become wealthy through an IPO, acquisition, or successful business, framing a sudden liquidity event as a turning point. The essay appears to address how to handle that new reality…
Founders are doing product marketing earlier than they think. It usually shows up when a buyer says something you weren’t expecting. That gap between how you describe the product and how buyers see it can change the story you tell and what gets built next. If you’re a founder
Marty Cagan argues that great products are necessary but not sufficient for a great company, because a company known for strong products attracts predatory investors and executives who strip value for quick financial…
This episode of Just Now Possible features a conversation with Priya Nakra and Olivia Rowley of Override Labs, a nonprofit building technology to prevent gender-based violence. Their flagship product, Is This Okay?…
Founders are doing product marketing earlier than they think. The market starts teaching you how buyers see the product almost immediately. What they compare it to affects the story you tell. Objections and lost deals often expose something deeper about the product itself. That
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast.
Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) and author of Inspired, Empowered and Transformed.
Co-founder of Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics and FYI; writes about product, SaaS and customer research.
Product leader (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo) and advisor known for frameworks on product sense and…
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY), co-author of Rework and Shape Up's home company.
Author of Escaping the Build Trap, founder of Produx Labs and Product Institute.
Former VP of Product Design at Facebook, author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Product sense is a learnable skill, not a fixed gift, and the sources agree on building it through deliberate immersion in customers and products. Jules Walter argues it…
Read the answer →Q:The sources agree that a product strategy is your plan for making the product vision real, not a feature list or a spec. Start by deciding what matters most and being…
Read the answer →Q:An empowered product team is a cross-functional team given problems to solve rather than features to build, and held accountable for outcomes. Marty Cagan defines it by…
Read the answer →Q:A startup should raise its prices earlier and more often than most teams do, because founders tend to underprice and rarely revisit price. Patrick Campbell puts it…
Read the answer →Q:Great product managers, per these sources, are judged by business outcomes and value/viability ownership rather than feature output or backlog administration. Marty…
Read the answer →Q:The sources agree that the North Star Metric is tied to strategy rather than being just a dashboard number. Lenny Rachitsky frames it as your strategy, and his guide…
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