Product
17 pieces on Product
- 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
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 - 10
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 - 11
Pricing Is Your Fastest 10%: A Conversation with Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz
Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz, co-founder of Valueships and ex-McKinsey, on why every company leaves 10% on the table, the three pricing levers, why discounting creates churn not loyalty, how to choose a pricing model, and breaking the discount habit.
·9 min read·GTM / Product - 12
You Are Not Your Job: A Conversation with Abby Hehemann
Abby Hehemann on twelve years and two exits at GetResponse and CourseDog, why product marketers who talk to paying customers become untouchable, why brand is back now that feature parity is gone, and the cost of giving yourself away to a job.
·14 min read·Positioning / Product / Leadership