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Pre-Build Validation: Test Demand Before You Write Code
A practical framework for testing the customer, problem, solution, price, and buying motion before deciding whether your next experiment needs code.
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Product-Market Fit: When to Focus, Narrow, or Pivot
A practical system for testing product-market fit, protecting roadmap focus, and deciding when to double down, narrow, pivot, or stop.
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Startup Validation: A Practical Path to Product-Market Fit
A practical validation system for narrowing your ICP, testing real commitment, running design partners, and recognizing durable product-market pull.
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Scale Beyond One Product: Battle‑Tested Tactics for Ideas, Teams, and Product Reviews
Scaling from a single product to a multi‑product portfolio doesn’t happen by accident—it takes clear strategy, sharp resource allocation, and disciplined product discovery. In this piece,…
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Scaling With Heart: Self-Aware Leadership, Tough Calls, and 10x Team Performance
Scaling an organization starts with scaling yourself. In this first-person reflection, I share how I build self-awareness, have hard conversations with empathy, and separate hiring errors…
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My playbook: Intuition vs data, big swings, and product-led growth lessons from Slack
Decision-making in product isn’t binary. I outline when to trust intuition versus data, how to manage pace against accuracy, and how to balance big swings with…
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Hard-Earned Lessons from Loom: Product Strategy, Alignment at Scale, and Hiring That Wins
I break down how Loom’s operating system illustrates best-practice product management, alignment at scale, and cross-functional performance that moves the needle. You’ll learn how to use…
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From Zero to One in B2B Marketing: My Proven SaaS Playbook for Growth, Hiring, and Attribution
Going from zero to one in B2B marketing demands focus, founder-led GTM, and rapid learning. I break down how to start early-stage SaaS marketing, allocate resources…
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Supercharge Your Engineering Org: Alignment, AI, and Productivity from Adobe to Etsy
Engineering speed is a function of alignment, not heroics. In this first-person breakdown, I unpack how modern engineering teams can scale productivity with outcomes vs output…
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Building Products in a Post-LLM World: Hard-Won Lessons, Skeptic Busters, and Team Playbooks
I break down how to build products in a post-LLM world with a pragmatic playbook you can put to work immediately. You’ll learn how Sprig’s journey…
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Inside Rewind AI’s Playbook: PMF Breakthroughs, Bold Twitter Fundraise, and the Future of AI
I explore Rewind AI’s path to product-market fit, the cultural habits that enable fast validation, and the bold Twitter-first fundraising strategy that rallied users and capital.…
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Goal-Setting for AI Products: How I Plan, Prioritize, and Confidently Ship in a Nonlinear GenAI World
Planning AI roadmaps is fundamentally different from traditional software. I share how I set outcomes-first OKRs, balance research and product development, and scale safely without over-planning.…
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Engineering Leadership That Scales: Strategy, Velocity, and Org Design from Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm
High-growth engineering orgs succeed by pairing a clear strategy with compounding platform bets and outcome-focused execution. In this deep dive, I break down practical patterns I…
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Inside Bard’s Playbook: How to Ship AI Fast, Build Ethically, and Outlearn Competitors
Building AI products demands speed and responsibility. I unpack the Bard blueprint—how principled constraints, early public learning, and tight product theses enable rapid iteration without sacrificing…
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What Makes or Breaks Executive Hires: My Lessons on Fit, Red Flags, and Measuring Success
Executive hiring is a make-or-break decision that demands clarity on fit, scope, and measurable outcomes. In this deep dive with Eeke de Milliano, I unpack the…
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Persuasive Leadership for Founders: My Take on Wes Kao’s Playbook to Influence and Win
Founders and product leaders don’t need more noise—they need persuasive clarity. In this first-person breakdown, I share how to align your message with your natural style,…
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When a Focused Product Wedge Is Ready to Become a Platform
A practical framework for deepening a winning wedge, extracting reusable platform primitives, and expanding without weakening product-market fit.
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Reliable AI Product Systems: A Product Leader’s Playbook
A practical operating model for defining reliability, designing bounded AI workflows, building evals, and controlling releases in production at scale.
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Deliberate Practice for Product Teams: How AI and On‑Demand Learning Unlock Mastery
Deliberate practice is the missing link between product learning and lasting behavior change. In this episode recap, I share why a blended model—cohort-based structure plus on-demand…
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Inside Alyx: Dogfooding, Evals, and Observability That Power an Agentic AI Future
This is a pragmatic, first-hand look at how Alyx was built by dogfooding Arize’s own platform—moving from messy notebooks to a disciplined eval and observability stack.…
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