Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance. The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. 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

JULY 27, 2024

Product Managers contribute substantially to various departments like finance, sales, and marketing, yet their efforts are not always directly linked to clear, individual metrics. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO. Is this a winning strategy? I think it depends on the skill set of the leader.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work. But it’s also about them seeing all the internals of the company , culture, finances, my attitude, etc.” ” — Sahil Lavingia , founder and CEO of Gumroad “ It’s a two-way street. .”

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

They must emphasize efficiency and effectiveness in finance and develop long-term plans to improve the company’s financial performance. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. It’s important to be able to answer the question of, what does a chief product officer do?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The same is true for your question: Yes, of course, at some point it’s easy to overload an individual or a workforce with too much technology, and in the case of the individual, we tend to self-correct. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. That’s why I called it “typical.” ” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Revulytics

JUNE 12, 2019

The compliance program is most often led by “the business” (often the sales or finance organizations according to data from a KPMG survey). Organizations considering a software compliance analytics strategy should keep this in mind as they seek to build consensus for a program. Here’s some advice on getting broad support.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To do this, I got together with the senior leadership team—co-founder and CTO Brendan Schwartz, our COO Kevin Oxendine, Heather Shanahan in finance, and others—to hunt for a metaphor that could show the Wistia team exactly how we wanted them tackling their work, both day-to-day and week-to-week.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. So we know that the CEO is time-slicing to cover investor pitches and office space and recruiting and benefits and legal and setting product direction and stocking the kitchen with snacks.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. The conversations you’ve heard today are only a sprinkling of the insight contained within our show’s archives.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jared Feldman, Founder & CEO of Canvs At a fireside chat at Meetup HQ in New York City, Jared sat down with Greg Battle , Chief Product Officer at finance intelligence company, Laso to discuss Canvs products, the world of qualitative analytics, and what it takes to build a business dedicated to understanding the power of empathy.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! As a smart Mobility start-up, they developed solutions to optimise and revolutionize public transport systems and services.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. You observe, interrogate and solve their problems. Your day-to-day product decisions have an impact. You are multilingual.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Finance is worried about margins. Your sales team has an ambitious quota to meet. And HR is telling you morale is low. Every exec has a goal and every goal has an exec.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Finance is worried about margins. Your sales team has an ambitious quota to meet. And HR is telling you morale is low. Every exec has a goal and every goal has an exec.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team. As a CTO or equivalent, you can be engaged in most of the activities related to product development, from choosing the development methodology to setting up the processes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Onboarding quizzes can also vary by category (they are often longer for high-intent purchases in categories like Health & Fitness and Finance) and by business model (they are often shorter for freemium apps where the user has time to experience the free product before making a purchase decision).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice It is known as an all-round app development agency, building apps for various industries like e-commerce, finance, insurance, games, health and wellness, and utilities. Vice President, Regal Cinemas 2.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

There are so many other ways. // 5 min read $aaS – Interesting innovation in alternative finance. . // 3 min read The End of Indie.vc Founder Bryce Roberts explains why in this blog post // 3 min read Expanding into Europe – just because it is in HBR, doesn’t mean it’s right.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

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. Rich Mironov: “Do you know what finances are? The org chart for a very early startup usually looks like this: the CEO does everything except tech.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women. 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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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

of women in each of our groups, like P&T, marketing, business, legal, finance and sales, among others. Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. if not more?—?of to list a few.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. This will see him transition CTO responsibilities to a to-be-determined successor at the end of FY22. Sri joined as Atlassian’s first CTO in January 2016, shortly after our initial public offering. A fond farewell.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric. The Innovation Enterprise hosts a series of events on topics ranging from analytics, strategy, big data and finance. Product Management Festival. The Innovation Enterprise.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric. The Innovation Enterprise hosts a series of events on topics ranging from analytics, strategy, big data and finance. Product Management Festival. The Innovation Enterprise.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric. The Innovation Enterprise hosts a series of events on topics ranging from analytics, strategy, big data and finance. Product Management Festival. The Innovation Enterprise.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

11:22 Mark: And were you considering equity finance at the same time? 19:57 Mark: And what can you say about that, in terms of kind of finances of the business when you were raising? And you can do it at a much better interest rate. Thinking About Equity Investment. Did you weigh out the pros and pros and cons? Was it profitable?

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. Those are very high, typical silos, right? Now, how do you do that?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. That wasn’t my, I don’t know, I just got a degree in finance because I felt like I could I was good at it. And we were doing website design. And I was doing that because that’s all I knew how to do. But I’ve always liked design.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2024

  An enterprise software company with $150,000 average sale looks and behaves very differently from a music stream service or consumer finance app charging $8/month.    So it’s very rare for the CEO to buttonhole the CPO/CTO/Head of Design with a single user’s complaint. 

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