How to think like the best product people in everyday life We all regularly build products in our lives. We encounter a problem. Say, how to organize our email. We develop a system. We iterate. This is product building, everyday. The fact that we are all building products everyday means we should also all improve […]
🤔 A Mystifying, New Field 💭 “So, what does a product growth manager do?” 💭 “Isn’t that the same thing as growth?” 💭 “Doesn’t every PM focus on growth?” I get it. When it comes to buzz-wordery, Product Growth has tons of it. But the field matters. And what people do in it is interesting. […]
July 20, 2015 Where were you? I was living in Palo Alto at the time. I was working in technology. When I saw, the headline, “PayPal Spinoff Day has Arrived,” I shrugged. I even gave the company mental side-eye: ➡️ “Isn’t that the company inside eBay who hasn’t done anything innovative in years?” ➡️ “Does […]
Coming out of the Trough of Disillusionment 🕳️ Many of the hottest consumer product companies have recently rapidly scaled through the referrals channel. Robinhood, valued at $36B, recently published that over 80% of its customers were acquired organically or through referrals. Clubhouse achieved hockey-stick growth to a $4B valuation a year after its founding. Tesla […]
How to drive consensus and exceed OKRs as a product team The OKPS (objective – key result – problem – solution) visualization helps PMs focus their product teams on the right work, drive consensus cross functionally, and exceed product OKRs. Solving problems for PMs Many of the PMs I have managed and mentored find resistance […]
Trend among fast growing tech companies A trend is spreading through many of the fastest growing technology companies – they are building in house ad technology stacks. Here are just a few of the awesome companies building in house ad tech: Zynga (68% Q1 YoY growth on $404M revenue) Wayfair (49% Q1 YoY growth on […]
Detailing the work of the different types of product teams focused on product growth If growth hacker was a buzzword in 2011, “product growth” could be construed as a similar buzzword for 2021. In this post, I try to breakdown the buzzword to get a grasp over what Product Growth could mean for those PMs. […]
Note: I am currently employed by Affirm. At the time I published this post, I was not an employee of Affirm. My opinions are my own and not that of Affirm or its affiliates. One of the hilarious commercials this Super Bowl was from a relatively unknown FinTech, Klarna. With this ad, the company help […]