Practice Area Lead at @Slalom. Formerly CTO at @POP_Agency. Obsessed with using customer data, #CDP's, MarTech and cloud architecture to drive revenue growth.
@johncutlefish I coach my team very specifically to use the term “internal partner.” Why? Because we work for the same organization and ultimately share the same goals with our partner, unlike a relationship with a third party. This puts the product team on equal footing.
🔧 Troubleshooting your #AWS#CloudFormation stacks just got easier 🔧 You can now disable automatic rollback, keep successfully provisioned resources, and retry stack operations! https://t.co/hpmiROoO3V
Some paradoxes of modern life:
1. The paradox of reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read.
My dad led an organization of over 300,000 employees.
When I took on my biggest marketing & events team to date (35 employees) I asked him how the *heck* he did it. Here's what he said and what helped me every day. 🧵
My co-founder Chandra Narayanan's quote has become something of a product-builder's mantra for us: Diagnose with data and treat with design.
There is so much packed into those sentences! Thread going deeper 👇 (1/15)
“We don’t write PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) as that’s too waterfall. We’re more agile than that.”
My experience tells otherwise: you’ll prob lose a lot of time later. A good PRD answers a few, but critical questions. Here’s how short it can be at Airbnb (via @lennysan )
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer! We're excited to announce a birthday of our own: our #WomenInTech group, Slalom WIT, turns 1 today! To help us #CelebrateAuthenticity, we asked some of our founding WIT leads what being a woman in tech means to them.
Growth hacking ain’t just for startups anymore. Given its tremendous success, it’s time for enterprises to get onboard. The right tools like @Amplitude_HQ make this much easier.
"The growth hacker mindset, combined with the right tools and practices, offers a blueprint for enterprise companies to realize digital transformation and unlock growth."
@Slalom's @jakebenn covers how #growthhackers understand customers with data.
https://t.co/h7F0OvO3wJ
Join me today as I discuss the next evolution in product analytics with Amplitude: Using #MachineLearning to automatically identify paths in the customer journey that either accelerate or hinder the customer experience. @SlalomSeattle@Amplitude_HQ
https://t.co/2DuM7MPfdo
Cloud communications business Twilio has agreed to acquire customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2 billion https://t.co/Uzt6l9CHot by @alexrkonrad