Product Strategy Posts

Nov. 22, 2023

Summary: How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

Context Ravi Mehta was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor and taught product strategy at Reforge. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching platform designed to help peop…

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Nov. 4, 2023

Summary: Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)

“I would say, advice to people generally, is be a force for positive momentum, and it will be actually a real career maker.” Context Claire Hughes Johnson was most recently COO at Stripe for the past seven years. Before that, she s…

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Nov. 3, 2023

Summary: Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Josh Miller is the co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, which built Arc. Previously he worked at Facebook and was the Director of Product at the White House (during the Obama administration). He started a company that was acqui-hired by Face…

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Nov. 2, 2023

Summary: How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)

Sahil Mansuri is the CEO of Bravado, the world’s largest online sales community. Sahil is passionate about sales, and his experience dates all the way back to 2008, working for Obama’s presidential campaign. During his time at Glassdoo…

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Oct. 19, 2023

Summary: AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)

Marily Nika is an AI Product Lead at Meta and previously worked at Google’s Assistant and AR/VR teams. She teaches among the most popular courses on AI and Product Management and also runs an AI Product bootcamp as part of the AI Product A…

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Aug. 12, 2023

Summary: April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process

April Dunford is an expert at nailing positioning for scaling tech companies and wrote Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product positioning. She spent 25 years leading marketing, product, and sales teams and is now an independent consultan…

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Aug. 7, 2023

Summary: Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, LNO framework, 3 levels of product work, and prioritization

Shreyas Doshi has managed product at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and Stripe—where he joined as its fourth product manager, later becoming Stripe’s first PM manager and helping define and grow its PM function from about 5 to more than 50 pe…

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Aug. 5, 2023

Summary: The art and science of pricing with Madhavan Ramanujam

Madhavan Ramanujam is a senior partner at Simon-Kucher, leading pricing strategy consultants, and works with Uber, Asana, and LinkedIn to help them develop their pricing and monetization strategies. Madhavan studied quantitative modeling at Stanf…

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Aug. 3, 2023

Summary: An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)

Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma. His experience spans Microsoft (Hotmail, Windows), YouTube (iOS app), and Uber, where he developed a lot of his current product philosophy. Toward the end of his time at Uber he switched from …

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