Product
19 pieces on Product
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Distribution Beats Product: A Conversation with Elston Baretto
Elston Baretto, bootstrapped founder of Tiiny Host, on crossing a million users by doing boring work every day, why leaving a big job lowered his risk, finding the one distribution channel that works, and why an average product with great distribution wins.
·13 min read·GTM / Product / AI - 08
Fast Growth Is the Phase That Lies: A Conversation with Monika Mikowska
Monika Mikowska, co-founder of the UX agency Mobee Dick, on why fast growth is the phase that deceives founders, the cash-flow blind spot that nearly bankrupted her, working on the company versus in it, and measuring success in vitality, not revenue.
·10 min read·Leadership / Product - 09
The PM Path Nobody Takes: A Conversation with Weronika Siatkowska
Weronika Siatkowska on moving from customer success to product manager, why empathy is a PM superpower, how to measure success for internal tools, why process is an enabler not bureaucracy, and rallying teams around a shared goal.
·10 min read·Product / Leadership - 10
Be the Whale: A Conversation with Anna Jagiello
Surfer's Head of Product Anna Jagiello on why SEO isn't dying, how observing customers beats interviewing them, why the PM's superpower is distilling every input into the essence, and why she famously refuses to give deadlines.
·7 min read·Product / Content - 11
Don't Just Ask for Feedback: A Conversation with Kris Palucki
Kris Palucki on doing the full loop from VC to operator to founder and back, the idea he killed that became Lovable, why the real scaling problem is misaligned agendas, and when to take VC money versus bootstrap.
·8 min read·Fundraising / Product - 12
Don't Assume You Are the Customer: A Conversation with Piotr Kacala
Product and engineering leader Piotr Kacala on the GOG Galaxy bet that was novel, hard, and wrong, why telling smart people what to do destroys them, the Dunbar breakpoints where teams break, and why delivery is a symptom.
·8 min read·Product / Leadership