Let’s find companies who are going through product. Because who cares about Unicorns? We have unicorns and decacorns as terms, but for product professionals, what matters more – market cap, or how that market cap was achieved? Product people do not care about the market cap. Product people do not care about slow growth companies […]
The story of one of startup investing’s rising stars Packy writes my current favorite source of info, Not Boring. Twice weekly, his newsletter deep dives into timely items in technology, from a strategic lens. His work is the antidote to algorithmic madness. In a world of shallow click-bait, Not Boring is in-depth storytelling. 👉 When […]
Decentralized Finance Applications’ Killer Interface: the Metaverse NFTs. Metaverse. DeFi. 🤦 Not more buzzwords… I get the reaction. The title can read like hyperbole salad. But, I want to argue these three technology trends are real. And matter. And what most analysts miss is – they increasingly look to be connected. After working in gaming […]
How to think like the best product people in everyday life We all regularly build products in our lives. We encounter a problem. Say, how to organize our email. We develop a system. We iterate. This is product building, everyday. The fact that we are all building products everyday means we should also all improve […]
🤔 A Mystifying, New Field 💠“So, what does a product growth manager do?” 💠“Isn’t that the same thing as growth?” 💠“Doesn’t every PM focus on growth?” I get it. When it comes to buzz-wordery, Product Growth has tons of it. But the field matters. And what people do in it is interesting. […]
Aug 21, 2021 💠“Cardano… the altcoin I invested in back in 2017?” I was really surprised to see the headline that Cardano had become the #3 cryptocurrency a few weeks ago. That makes it the leading crypto behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. It is amazing something became so big with me knowing so little. As […]
July 20, 2015 Where were you? I was living in Palo Alto at the time. I was working in technology. When I saw, the headline, “PayPal Spinoff Day has Arrived,” I shrugged. I even gave the company mental side-eye: ➡️ “Isn’t that the company inside eBay who hasn’t done anything innovative in years?” ➡️ “Does […]
Coming out of the Trough of Disillusionment 🕳️ Many of the hottest consumer product companies have recently rapidly scaled through the referrals channel. Robinhood, valued at $36B, recently published that over 80% of its customers were acquired organically or through referrals. Clubhouse achieved hockey-stick growth to a $4B valuation a year after its founding. Tesla […]
No investment is better than an investment in yourself. As a business person who is paid to think, write, and communicate, you may want to consider an investment in an iPad. There are four main reasons why. 1/ Drawing figures How many times have you sat down to make a figure, only to find out […]
A common set of problems Just about anyone who has worked in a white-collar job these days has heard these complaints. While the rise of data has been well-documented, the added complexity in querying and analyzing may have been under-reported. This results in stakeholders often missing the data they want. They feel they cannot get […]