You're probably not pitching a product to a venture capitalist this quarter. You're pitching it to your VP of Product, an engineering leader protecting scarce capacity, and a go-to-market partner who's seen too many launches flop because the story was fuzzy. That's why most advice on what is pitching a product misses the PM job. […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Cowork power user demo (0:54) Aakash: Pawel, you have spent more time in Cowork than almost anyone, you use it for a lot of your everyday tasks. Even though you are a former engineer who could use terminal just fine. So can you walk us through […]
Most PM advice tells you to stay out of the weeds. Focus on vision. Prioritize ruthlessly. Leave implementation to engineering. That advice breaks down fast in AI, data products, and internal platforms. If you're building retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, analytics exports, or cross-system automations, your product quality depends on how data gets combined, transformed, and […]
If you open the same five tools every morning, your browser is doing too much work. Most PMs I know bounce between Jira, Figma, Notion, Amplitude, internal admin panels, and a few AI tools before lunch. A desktop shortcut sounds trivial, but it changes how quickly you get into flow. The better framing is this: […]
A completely effective product manager can raise company revenue by 34.2%, according to Quixy's roundup of product management statistics. That number is striking not because most PMs hit it, but because it reminds you how much influence the role can have when strategy, prioritization, and execution line up. Most product management advice still misses that […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. OpenAI’s structural failure (2:57) Aakash: Eric, I think the structure that is on the top of everybody’s mind is OpenAI. OpenAI started as a nonprofit. It created a capped profit arm. Then they just converted to a for-profit PBC. Based on everything you just showed us, […]
If you're asking what does a leading indicator do, the practical answer is simple. It gives a product team time to act before the headline number gets worse. Most PMs spend too much time explaining bad outcomes after they show up in revenue, churn, or retention reports. By then, the damage is already visible to […]
Most advice about team culture is wrong for product leaders. It tells you to care about values, trust, and morale, then leaves the actual execution to HR, founders, or good intentions. That's why so many teams say culture matters while still shipping slowly, re-litigating decisions, and burning out strong PMs. A product team's culture isn't […]
Your inbox is telling people what kind of PM you are, even when you're not replying. If your auto reply outlook setup is vague, late, or missing, stakeholders fill in the gaps themselves. Engineering assumes you're ignoring a blocker. Sales thinks product is unresponsive. Leadership reroutes around you. The issue isn't the email feature. It's […]
Every PM gets told to “build a differentiated product.” It's the most common advice in product, and one of the least useful. It sounds strategic, but it usually collapses into vague backlog debates, competitor feature matching, or branding exercises that never reach the product itself. The harder truth is that differentiation isn't one thing. It's […]