product development

“When your product development work is never done, neither is your pricing, and you need to combat that along the way.”

“And again, we are, I think in the product development space gotten a little bit lazy of actually showcasing that enterprise value in product. So we rely on excellence of sales team to tell that story.”

“So I love bringing design upstream. Like that's, in fact, that's probably been the cheat code of my career as a product leader, as has just been disproportionately empowering design throughout the process.”

“I think the best way to execute is just to have that be front and center from the start. What is our go-to-market strategy? How are we thinking about monetization and having that infused into how you think about product development?”

“So no more than three reviews on a given piece of work where people are blocking one approver. And If a meeting has more than 10 people on it, we ask the person hosting the meeting to kick out the other people and write better decision notes.”

“I think when to involve the founder CEO in a project is really important. And the short version, I think that works the best is almost like a U curve where the X axis is time and the Y axis is level of involvement. I think you want to get the founders, you kno…”

“If you don't know what that is, like, what are the chances that you're going to increment yourself to the right Outcome in the end. And, you know, as I talked about before, like building the house, like you want to see what that picture looks like. In the, you…”

“The best research doesn't like leave it at that. Right? It tells you, and it's like the what, the so what, and then the then what. But the problem with that is some researchers go too far in the other direction where they're like, we ran the study, it yielded …”

“I find proof of existence to be an incredibly powerful proof rather than proof by theory or proof by Debate. It's just like, look, we did it one time.”

“And I think craft is kind of a. Dessert that you get after the meal of does your thing solve a real problem in the world? And are people clamoring, needing it badly?”

“A big lesson for me is that chaos is good. And chaos is actually great. And sometimes you want to create chaos in an organization to push the organization to think creatively and to actually like make leaps in, in product development.”

“Really know how you're going to sell something and who's going to do the selling before you actually go build out the product. Because if you don't have that right focus, You may build out the best product and yet it's going to get zero adoption because no one…”

“And so typically you're bottlenecked by the middle kind of part where your ideas are kind of like, there are a lot of them and they're not fitting in because like they need to be made and they need to be made quickly. And so now you open up that bottleneck. So…”

“When you look at the solve stage, There are wide lurches. You gotta be very comfortable with the fact that you're day one thinking about, hey, a plant detection tool, and then day 15, you're like, oh, actually, the tech is really good for translating, you know…”

“It's not a matter of getting their buy-in. It's a matter of them being a part of it, you know, that it's like, it's, I don't know, it's a part of their soul in a really deep, meaningful way. And I don't, I'm not sure you can graph that onto somebody after the …”

“For a completely novel product experience or form factor, you should actually not start with evals and you start with vibes, right? Meaning like, you know, you need to go and just kind of test in a much more open-ended way. Like, does this even work? Like, you…”