Marty Cagan and Jon Moore argue that a product-led company's engineering practices should rest on three principles: protecting customers, revenue, brand and colleagues; responding quickly to market needs; and earning…
“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to build an AI that can take a food order over WhatsApp — correctly, every time, fast enough that customers can't tell it's not a person? That's the core challenge Santi Marchiori and Juan Haedo set”
Lenny Rachitsky follows up his earlier analysis by ranking companies whose former product managers most often start companies, raise Series A rounds, accelerate their careers, or become product leaders. Using alumni…
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?…
This podcast episode features ShowMe's co-founders discussing how they build AI digital sales reps for inbound teams, treating agents as full teammates that run voice and video calls, demo products, and follow up over…
Marty Cagan argues that a layoff, though painful, can be turned into a valuable period for building product management skills and becoming a more desirable candidate. He briefly advises keeping professional social…
Jason Fried argues that the best time to invite outside users into a product is only a week or two before launch, when it is essentially a near-final release rather than an early beta. At that stage he is not seeking…
Lenny Rachitsky compiles informal Twitter poll results on the software tools product, design, analytics, research, and data teams rely on, plus what early-stage founders buy first and spend most on. The post separates…
Hiten Shah argues that transformative technologies often look like toys at first, and that Wabi's playful mini-apps are an early stage of a new personal operating system. He compares this to the early personal computer…
Marty Cagan addresses a common objection from non-tech companies: that the product operating model doesn't apply to them. He argues that being a 'tech company' is about how a business chooses to power its offering with…
Marty Cagan explains how SVPG operates: it advises startups and growth-stage companies and runs public and private workshops on how strong product teams work. Demand far exceeds capacity, which he attributes to SVPG's…
Lenny Rachitsky's follow-up report uses data from TrueUp (new tech job openings) and Live Data Technologies (job changes) to map the state of the product job market. It covers a slow recovery, a tilt toward senior PM…
This episode of Just Now Possible features three Hertility team members discussing how they build AI diagnostic tools for women's health in the UK and Ireland. Hertility combines online health assessments, at-home…
This essay traces how website heatmaps emerged from a blind spot in early web analytics, which counted page destinations rather than the actual interactions visitors made. Two identically destined links were merged into…
Teresa Torres argues that a product manager job search should start with self-assessment rather than a list of who is hiring. Companies differ in what they need: technical products favor engineers, market-creating…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Rhea's Factory's co-founders discussing enzymatic plastic recycling, a biological approach that breaks plastic polymers back into their original monomers rather than merely…
Lenny Rachitsky argues that product differentiation is essential, drawing on Michael Porter's view that winners either operate better or perform differently from rivals. The post lays out seven practical differentiators…
Marty Cagan pays tribute to Steve Jobs following his death, calling him arguably the greatest figure in the product world. He credits Jobs with tackling very hard problems and producing products that defined their…