Loved this super insightful product teardown from @alexdebecker
Got some great ideas for optimizing our product - look forward to him doing @augmetaai one day 💪
Product teardown of Productboard: https://t.co/RPonTOfx6Q
Lots to unpack here - from their innovative take on dogfooding with "Study Groups", to the power of metrics in driving product decisions, and the journey of scaling Atlas. Must listen for PMs and founders alike.
Jeff Weinstein (@jeff_weinstein) is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start companies into a few simple clicks with @atlas. Prior to Stripe, Jeff led several startups and sold companies to Groupon and Box. He’s known for his customer obsession, craft, quality, and building beloved products businesses rely on.
In our conversation, we discuss:
🔸 The power of customer obsession and how to operationalize it in your product development process
🔸 How to pick the right metrics and use them to drive impact
🔸 Techniques for getting things done at big companies
🔸 A group practice Jeff started to uplevel product craft, called Study Group
🔸 The story behind Stripe Atlas and its mission to increase entrepreneurship globally
🔸 Lessons from working with the founders of Stripe
Listen now 👇
- YouTube: https://t.co/QBBL1I48gN
- Spotify: https://t.co/Wu1cEUbLyH
- Apple: https://t.co/t9NB7kIsNX
The best product leaders I've met are also the most critical users of the products they ship. They're never fully satisfied, and they never stop shipping.
Spot on from @shreyas as always. Witnessed this firsthand as a PM on a heavily funded project where adding ‘one more’ engineer was a non-issue but rarely increased short-term output. This led to more frustrated leadership who expected us to double our speed.
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc
The PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly
A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow: