product requirements document

also referred to as: prd

5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 29, 2023 by Kevin Niparko · across every show →

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Sep 29, 2023
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Niparko: PRDs Should Focus on What and Why, Not Solutions
“It's not about solutions. It's not about how you can solve them, but it's more about what and why you are solving that problem.”
Kevin Niparko Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 32:25 Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 29, 2023
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Niparko: Product memes matter more than roadmaps because people skip PRDs
“So, you know, with all the talk about how important it is to write as a product leader, I think at the end of the day, most people are never going to read your PRD. Most people are not actually going to review your, you know, 20 page roadmap, no matter how wel…”
Kevin Niparko Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 36:59 Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 11, 2025
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Nayak: AI Product Teams Should Always Prototype Before Writing PRDs
“I actually always say prototype before the PRD, whenever you have an idea, whether it's engineers, designers, PMs, whatever, you should do the prototype before, because you're not going to really know how to build the product or what the exact UX should be, pa…”
Aatish Nayak Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 27:24 20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
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James: Product specification documents will shrink from 20-pagers to one-pagers
“Articulating it in some doc, like, it becomes a one pager instead of a 20 pager.”
Jason James Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 11:28 20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
Sep 15, 2025
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If an AI model is the product, its eval is the PRD
“And if we think about the model as the product, then the eval is the PRD. And so many people have been sort of just like, you know, vibe spending on AI without actually writing the PRD of what do they want to implement and how do they measure that it's going t…”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 35:15 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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