Product Organization
topic on 3 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
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Adam Foroughi: AppLovin Operates Without a Dedicated Product Management Team
“We don't have a product organization. Our engineers are meant to be product managers.”
Product Roadmaps Built Without CRO Input Fail to Capture True Demand
“Well, who designs the product roadmap? Oh, the product organization does. You got problems, right? Because product organization is going to go build what they think the customer wants to buy. The person that knows what the customer wants to buy is the person t…”
CROs know what customers buy better than product teams
“The person that knows what the customer wants to buy is the person that's talking to the customer. It's the CRO.”
Product teams are ultimately responsible for revenue alongside sales
“They are, in fact, while not as directly responsible as sales, they're still responsible for revenue.”
Claire Vo: Sales-Led Product Models Can Deliver Great Craft and User Experience
“I am a sales led product apologist unabashedly, which is, I think that it is okay to listen to the market and to be commercially oriented in products in ways that probably would make some folks in some types of product organizations Squirm a little bit. And th…”
Best-in-Class PLG Startups House Growth Teams Inside Product, Not Marketing
“A lot of these startups I see in PLG, almost all of them actually, put their growth teams in marketing, and I think that's an opportunity because all of the best-in-class ones put their growth team in product.”
Self-serve revenue teams belong in product engineering, not sales
“I think that the self-serve team is fundamentally a product team first and foremost, and it needs to be a product engineering team and sit within the product organization to be actually able to build the experiences for the customers on that enable PLG.”
Sacks: Product heads should report directly to CEO, not CTO
“I think it's important for the product organization, even though it's very small, to report directly to the founder CEO. Sometimes I see it tucked Under the CTO, and obviously that can work too, but I feel like it's a better way for the founder to stay involve…”
Peter: Enterprise design should sit within product due to shared goals
“I think in an enterprise, ah, organization where you have a different buyer and a different end user, you might have like four, you know, three, four percentage you work with. I think it's okay for design to be nested within product because you really have the…”