PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. Back in 2000, product management was much less popular than it was in 2018. Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded. I think it's really common.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2018

The industry’s chosen themes for 2018: Open Product in the Age of the Connected Consumer. Integration of New Technology into Digital Strategy. Bryan Mahoney, Chief Technology Officer, Glossier. Delivering Seamless, Personalized Experiences. Engaging Consumers in a Fragmented Landscape. and 60 more to be announced!

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. That was the question posed to Rachel Hepworth.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. Solving the puzzle.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. The post Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading appeared first on Business of Software USA. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Deckle Edge. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This became a thriving, bootstrapped, remote only, business that became the number one paid app in Apple’s App Store in 2018. In this talk from BoS USA 2019, Cesar will share the story of how he accidentally turned his idea for a tool that would encourage him to be more adventurous into 1SecondEveryday.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Our CTO, Curtis loves taking Distributed Systems problems into the realm of Mathematics and did a lot of interesting analysis to determine optimal rows per file for query purposes. Timeline: We started brainstorming ideas and doing research in the second half of 2018. More on that in a separate blog-post.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Hangout with Joanna Wiebe BoS USA 2018. Over 12 years of Conferences we’ve seen over 200 talks given by some brilliant speakers.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

million funding from a little known investor in 2018. Mat Clayton (CTO/Co-Founder, Mixcloud) – Bootstrapping To 20 Million Users from Business of Software Conference. Mat Clayton bootstrapped Mixcloud over ten years with a total team of five to build an audio streaming business with 15,000,000 MAUs. Sketchnote. Upcoming Events.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO. Stephanie Hannon, CPO at Strava.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

by Sergey Kizyan, CTO, Intetics Oh, how the mighty have fallen. That exceeds the total number for all of 2018. One of the main reasons so many retail companies are in a death spiral is because they’ve been slow to adopt new technologies. Toys-R-Us, Radio Shack, Payless Shoes?—?all all once considered industry gargantuans?—?now

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. I’m a Product Manager at Doximity , the largest online network for clinicians, and a 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Company. No matter the stage of the company, product people will find themselves working alongside a tech lead of some sort.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in May 2018. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. The post How To Manage Your Badass Team | Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas | BoS USA 2018 appeared first on Business of Software USA. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

The post Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018 appeared first on Business of Software USA. Just being able to assist them in their learning in their journey of growth. ML: Okay, Ladies and gentleman; David council. Thank you sir.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

The post Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018 appeared first on Business of Software USA. So getting to the end now. I remember early on in the journey of Metail listening to. This person speak Megan Smith I think she was one of the early hires at Google.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organized by Product School, these events only started in 2018 with San Francisco and quickly gained momentum in the community to expand to four additional U.S. These events feature fantastic talks on topics ranging from experimentation to cognitive biases to product-market fit all delivered by the who’s who of top technology companies.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. According to Crunchbase , there were 3,002 startups launched globally in 2018. A 2018 report by CBInsights zeroed in on the top 20 reasons for startup failure­. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge. Common Product Management titles and role descriptions.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

At BoS, Bruce has spoken three times ( Europe 2018 , USA 2018 , Europe Online 2020) and has led not one but two great BoS Masterclasses focused on Product Roadmapping. Bruce’s latest best seller, Product Roadmapping Relaunched is one of our top recommended books for every product leader. Can I submit a question in advance?

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Amplitude

AUGUST 14, 2019

Emmanuel Frenehard, CTO at iflix. In November 2018, we launched a beta of Amplitude Engage under the name Cohort Sync; since then, we’ve seen customers across all industries drive more ROI with personalized campaigns. Engage has empowered us to execute highly targeted experiences and tune campaigns to drive impact.”

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 19, 2019

– David Heinemeier Hansson (Founder/CTO, Basecamp). That was Rahul Vohra’s thesis at Business of Software USA 2018. I think it’s fair to say that Gail has authority when talking about negotiating how to grow and scale a business. A must watch. Watch Gail's Talk. 3 // Rewrite! DHH says “ Please.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. Nick: Snooze Day was actually started by the original Reddit CTO, Marty Weiner, and the idea was to give Reddit employees some creative freedom. What does that mean in practice, and what the role of engineering is in helping accomplish that?

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. So what are your next steps? So what are you going to do now?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

from 2018 to 2022 by focusing on current user retention rate (CURR). However, it is also the foundation for any successful consumer subscription app. In “How Duolingo reignited user growth,” former CPO Jorge Mazal highlights how the company grew DAUs 4.5x

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. E.g. for us when we were hiring – it was our CTO, who is a man – told us “ If we want to attract more women to take that job, we need to rewrite the job description.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m I like paying for the services I use. Twitter is free to use and look how that’s gone. Well, everyone knows that recent converts are the most fervent.

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

May, 2018 After validating our assumptions, we knew it was time to start working on User Interviews full-time. Our CTO (Bob) cleaned up the website & replaced the Google form with one that made us seem slightly more legit. We were able to find 4 paying clients!

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

Google I/O vs. WWDC 2018. WWDC in 2018 was a big disappointment for me. In 2018, many of the components were good to go. They’ve also made them easy to use by adding support for them in Android Studio. In contrast, when I watched the sessions at Google I/O, I was impressed. You can see here how it’s matured.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We officially launched in September 2018.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We officially launched in September 2018.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.” “In late 2018 I co-founded Vinehealth after experiencing the impact of cancer both in my personal life and throughout my career. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. I’m also a UC Berkeley graduate with a B.A.

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