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Mastering Product Marketing with Amplitude Analytics: Proven Playbooks for Sustainable Growth
Discover how I apply Amplitude Analytics and behavioral analytics to connect product strategy with go-to-market strategy. Learn practical methods to improve user activation, run rigorous retention…
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Master Opportunity Mapping with Continuous Discovery Habits — Join the May 2026 Book Club
This May, I’m leading a community read-along of Continuous Discovery Habits with a practical focus on opportunity mapping and outcome-driven product discovery. You’ll get a chapter…
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Beyond Command and Control: How I Build Trust, Speed, and Autonomy in Product Teams
Uncertainty tempts leaders to tighten control, but that speed is often a mirage in complex product environments. I explain why no single leader can hold all…
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From 70 Employees to Dominance: My Playbook for Hypergrowth, Focus, and Top-Down Goals
Scaling an atoms-based marketplace demands a different kind of product leadership. In this first-person playbook, I share how I apply a simple “plate spinning” framework to…
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Inside the Most Politically Dangerous C‑Suite Role: Hard Truths on Culture, Layoffs, and Leadership
Culture isn’t a perk—it’s a product. In this first-person reflection on the most politically charged seat in the C‑suite, I share why HR must think like…
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Commercial vs. Internal Products: Hard Truths, High Leverage, and How I Make the Call
Internal products quietly drive customer experience, margin, and speed—yet they’re often underfunded. Commercial products expand scope with positioning, pricing, and GTM complexity, making them harder to…
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How Top Product Teams Roadmap Through Uncertainty: Align Faster, Adapt Smarter, Deliver
Uncertainty isn’t the enemy of great product roadmaps—wishful certainty is. I anchor plans on outcomes, organize bets by time horizon and confidence, and use continuous discovery…
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Stop Misleading A/B Tests: Master Sample Size Assumptions for Reliable Results
Sample size calculators are only as reliable as the assumptions behind them. I show how I validate baseline rates, set a meaningful minimum detectable effect (MDE),…
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Unlock Confident Decisions with Bayesian Statistics: Smarter A/B Tests from Small Samples
When experiments stall due to low traffic, I turn to Bayesian statistics to convert sparse data into decision-ready insights. Instead of opaque p-values, I communicate intuitive…
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From Engineer to CEO: Hard-Won Lessons on GTM, Cloud-First Bets, and Must-Do Focus
Becoming a CEO from an engineering or product track requires an almost entirely new skillset—and a new operating system. In this reflection, I break down the…
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Outcomes vs Outputs: How I Stopped the Feature Factory and Drove Real Product Impact
Most teams say they value outcomes over outputs, yet daily habits still reward shipping. In this article, I share clear definitions, hard-won examples, and diagnostic tests…
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Staying Sane as a Product Leader: Practical Strategies I’m Using from Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
Feeling overwhelmed is rational in a world of infinite inputs and finite attention. I’m applying small, values-driven actions—guided by “Something is better than nothing”—to stay grounded…
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Inside Zipline’s Wild Pivot: My Take on Hiring Heat-Seekers and Scaling to 5,000 Hospitals
Zipline’s arc—from near-dead robotics to drone blood delivery in Rwanda—offers a standout playbook for product leaders. I break down why hiring “heat-seeking missiles for pain” beats…
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Kill Your Darlings: Why I Sunset ‘Successful’ Products to Fuel Real Portfolio Growth
Letting go of “profitable but flatlining” products is one of the hardest calls we make as product leaders, yet it’s often the move that unlocks real…
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Lost in the Woods: 5 Survival Patterns Every Product Leader Must Master Now
Feeling “lost in the woods” with your product strategy is more common than most leaders admit. I break down five survival patterns—freeze, chase shortcuts, follow the…
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Scaling Enterprise Sales from $0 to $3.5B: CRO Lessons, MEDDIC Mastery, and GTM Truths
Enterprise scale isn’t magic; it’s disciplined execution. Drawing lessons from Snowflake’s rise, I break down how the CRO role evolves from $10M to $1B+, why The…
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Inside Partner Product Marketing: Lessons that Elevate Go-to-Market and Product-Led Growth
Partner product marketing is most powerful when it aligns product positioning, data-driven learning, and cross-functional execution. I share how I translate complex capabilities into outcome-led narratives…
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Build a Support System That Scales: How Product Leaders Maximize Impact with Delegation and AI
Feeling stretched thin as a product leader? This reflection distills a practical playbook for scaling your impact without adding hours to your calendar. Learn why executive…
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Why “Figma Is Not the Source of Truth”: My Playbook for Design Leadership That Scales
I share a practical playbook for design leadership built around a simple truth: Figma is not the source of truth—customers are. You’ll learn how to align…
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Delegated Decision-Making: Build a System That Scales
A practical system for assigning decision rights, teaching judgment, setting escalation triggers, and reviewing outcomes without taking control back.
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