Like Tom Cruise in the “Minority Report”, I sense a “pre-crime” to be perpetrated on the Fortune 500 by Chief Product Officers. CEOs, and I don’t know who needs to hear this, but CrowdStrike‘s blind spot in product managing a hashtag#platform product cost them $19.4 billion dollars. As we all now know, their technology platform…
“What good is building great technology if you can’t communicate it to the world?”, the MIT admissions officer scrawled on the margin of an applicant’s essay that I filed away in a cabinet. I had scored a cool student summer job there, opening, scanning, filing, and sometimes, reading the occasional amazing applications. This is a…
A practical guide for people building platforms in 2024. Posted July 9, 2023 by Vik Chaudhary and Sid Palani Our Motivation There are many resources for product managers of consumer apps or B2B applications. However, we see a gap in PM resources for the unique challenges of building platforms, which serve as foundational tools for…
I subscribe to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited and Audible, where I can either read or listen to articles, books and podcasts that I would otherwise not have seen. While searching both these databases is cumbersome, occasionally I will see a gem emerge. Today, one of the Kindle gems was Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of…
You might wonder: how are product roadmaps designed, or, as some may jest “is there a method behind the madness?” While the method is different for B2C products at any company, in B2B there are clear principles to follow when building for and selling to large teams. Here’s a template that has worked for some…
The expression “thin slicing” was coined in a 1992 article in the Psychological Bulletin. It describes people’s ability to detect patterns in an event even if they experience only a narrow portion of that event. People who watched a series of brief, silent videos of a teacher reached similar judgments about the teacher as did students…