product marketing

10 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2022 by Tony Fadell · across every show →

Everything said about product marketing, oldest first

Jun 6, 2022
Insight
Fadell: Product marketing should be an independent team separate from engineering and PR
“Hire and build the right team around product marketing and make sure it's a separate team. It's not marketing. It's not communications. It's not engineering. It's not project management. It's something else.”
Tony Fadell Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 56:26 Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2022
Insight
Annie Pearl: PLG marketing comes from the product, not product marketers
“I think that great marketing of PLG products is not actually about product marketing. It's about the actual product itself.”
Annie Pearl Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 19:26 Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2022
Insight
Annie Pearl: Product marketing becomes essential when moving PLG products upmarket
“The role of product marketing I think actually becomes much more important as you're thinking about moving up market versus the product marketing itself is most important when you're sort of just thinking about the PLG channel.”
Annie Pearl Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 20:26 Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2022 negative
Opinion
Stebbings: Modern product marketing is bland and makes you feel nothing
“I think product marketing today is really, really shit. It's bland. It doesn't make you feel anything.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 19:04 Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 28, 2022 positive
Insight
The best brand stories start with customer problems, not product marketing
“I think the best companies that have the best story don't start with product marketing. They start with the problem that their customer has.”
Kipp Bodnar Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 17:34 Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 28, 2022 positive
Insight
Brand marketing matters more than product marketing in established categories
“If you're running a better mousetrap business, You have to be obsessed with differentiation and emotion. I think that's where brand marketing is way more important than product marketing.”
Kipp Bodnar Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 20:17 Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Insight
Raanan: Startups should make demand generation their first marketing hire
“You asked me a year ago, who would be the first hire at a marketing organization? That would be product marketing. My mind changed. My answer today is demand generation. And that can accelerate, that can make a huge impact on the business early on.”
Gili Raanan Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 1:04:38 Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 26, 2024
Insight
Peiris: Product marketing closes delta between perceived and actual product value
“I define product marketing as this closing this delta between the perceived value a customer has of the product and the actual value that you've delivered them.”
Nilan Peiris Jul 26, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Insight
Sales reps should collect customer data, not write marketing content
“Salespeople, as good as they are, is capturing and understanding the data. That doesn't mean they're necessarily great at creating content. So what you want them to do is capture all of the information, feed it back into product marketing and let product marke…”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 20:55 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 31, 2025
Insight
Ferriss: Product marketing must be designed directly into the product itself
“First and foremost, the marketing has to be the product itself. Like when people are like, how did you launch your book? I'm like, is your book done? They're like, yeah, my book's done. I'm like, it's too late for us to have a conversation. Like the marketing …”
Tim Ferriss Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 1:20:30 20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
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