Brian Tolkin
15 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2025 by Brian Tolkin · across every show →
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Tolkin: Frequent job hopping limits professional growth and impact
“I think the reality is you just become more effective and therefore you can do more more, more, more quickly. You have deeper relationships, you have deeper context on the company, you have deeper context on the customer base, and therefore you can be more eff…”
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Tolkin: Judge major product redesigns on weeks five through eight of data
“We're going to look at all the data, but we're not going to make a decision in the first two weeks. We have to have the fortitude, the guts, the gumption to say, we might see patterns in the behavior where behavior is slowly changing over time. And so we actua…”
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Tolkin: Launch new products in sandboxes to protect core offerings
“I think the best way that I've seen this approached is by giving new products a little bit of a sandbox, a contained sandbox that relaxes a bunch of the constraints of the company. But does it in a way that if it's completely fails or whatever, it actually doe…”
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Tolkin: Early-stage CEOs must act as Chief Product Officers
“Always no, but in the early stages, yes. So, you know, there are certain scales of companies where that, you know, maybe doesn't make sense anymore. But in the early days, yeah, I do think they should. I think outsourcing your, if you think that the most impor…”
Feb 7, 2025
Tolkin: Chronic disagree-and-commit signals an employee is in the wrong role
“Can I disagree and commit for sure? Right? Because that, that is like how we make velocity based decisions. If I'm disagreeing and committing too much, Then, yeah, I agree with you. Then, like, I'm in the wrong place because I'm not aligned to where we're goin…”
Feb 7, 2025 neutral
Tolkin: Second products must leverage core advantages or existing users
“It doesn't have to benefit the first, but it has to take advantage of some competitive advantage that your company has, right? And so if you think about sort of a classic two by two matrix where you have, you know, your customer set and your competitive advant…”
Feb 7, 2025 negative
Tolkin: Defaulting the Uber app to UberPool was a poor product decision
“And for a little bit the default was Uber pool. And I think that was a poor product decision. Because even if you had chosen Uber X on your last ride, it defaulted back to Uber pool. And so the UI wasn't clear enough what was happening. And so people were acci…”
Feb 7, 2025
Tolkin: AI expands PM tools but core product skillset stays unchanged
“I think what changes is your ability to communicate those ideas, your ability to do more upfront, your ability to do better user research because you can show prototypes easier. So I think the tool chest gets bigger, but the core skillset of like, Actually fig…”