Marty Cagan
10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 7, 2022 by Marty Cagan · said 9 times in 5 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Marty Cagan, oldest first
Dec 7, 2022 positive
Dec 7, 2022 positive
Dec 7, 2022
Value risk is usually the hardest challenge in product discovery
“The first one is. Is it valuable? In other words, will people buy it or if they've already bought it or if it's a free service, will they choose to use it? That's the value question. Usually that's the hardest one, not always, but usually it's the hardest one.”
Dec 7, 2022
Dec 7, 2022 negative
Dec 7, 2022 negative
Qualitative research should find product flaws, not seek affirmation
“With qualitative feedback, your goal is to find all the things that are wrong with the product. So that's the difference. You're not looking for affirmation, which is what these, you know, naive founders are doing. They're not, you're not doing that. You're ac…”
Dec 7, 2022 negative
Feb 3, 2023 positive
Feb 3, 2023 negative
Feb 3, 2023 negative
Cagan: Take-home tests for hiring product managers are ineffective
“I'm not a fan, by the way, of tests in terms of people will have these assignments. In my experience, they're not very indicative of what you're really looking for. And let me put it this way. I still haven't found that test that I think is any good.”