Noah Weiss

“Most companies wait too long to introduce them, whether they call them principles or maxims or design guidelines, it doesn't really matter. But I think it's really hard. If you're a product founder and you're a founder led company, I mean, there's all types of…”

“Most product organizations, the PMs feel like their primary team is going to be the engineers and designers that they've worked with. Those are the people they work with every day that they have the closest connection to.”

“Yeah, I think that that works and it's harder to do, I think in enterprise and consumer because, you know, really a metric you care about is are people willing to pay for the product, but most of the things you do in a product don't directly affect that metric…”

“As a company scales, I think there's a tendency towards incrementalism and kind of local optimization. You know, you have bigger and bigger organizations. You have feature teams. The feature teams may have a similar KPI. That is the one thing they feel directl…”

“The most important feature by far for any product is actually speed.”

“The majority of things you're building as a private organization fall into two way door kind of decisions, especially things you can experiment with and then on release.”

“And I think they're, what I would really recommend, honestly, is like, that's where you do want to hire people who have domain expertise. You don't want a bunch of folks who worked at an early stage startup, had never worked in enterprise before to be like, le…”

“I mean, I think where internet was most true was 2018 to 2020. And I think I would, I think we would fess up to it entirely because back then, you know, this is again, I don't know if we could have done it differently. You're a small company. You can't do ever…”