I had the privilege of interviewing Radhika Dutt on my podcast. Here is the summary of what Radhika has written about product vision in her book, Radical Product Thinking. Your product is your mechanism to create the change you envision for your users. This means that before you can…

Amazon has a reputation for decision making that is not only high in both velocity and quality, but also high in scale, with a set of clearly articulated principles and a unique methodology. And they follow these methods with striking consistency across the organisation. I dug into Ram Charan’s The…

I had the good fortune to talk to Yevgeniy Brikman, Co-founder of Gruntwork and author of the book, Hello Startup. One of the questions I asked him is his definition of startup. Here is what he said: What is a tech startup? The prototypical startup is a week old company with two developers in…

One of my favorite quotes comes from Ash Maurya, which says: Your “Product” is not the product. Your business model is the product. For a few years I have begun to believe that the term product management is limiting in the world of SaaS and subscriptions. …

I speak with at least one product leader every week from anywhere around the world for around 90 minutes. However, my interaction with Jens Fabian should be one of the best ever episodes I have ever recorded. He was extremely sagely, grounded yet radical in his ideas on product. I…

Shekhar Kirani is somewhat of a celebrity investor in India. He has guided investments into some of the best companies in the world like ANSR, BrowserStack, CareStack, Cogoport, FalconX, Freshworks, Chargebee and Zenoti — Freshworks which went public at NASDAQ with $10 billion. He identified all of these companies at…

The last few weeks have been ground-shifting for me in terms of how I imagine building and offering products to potential customers. One of my favourite quotes comes from Justin Kan, who says: While I don’t entirely buy this argument, I understand what Justin was trying to impress upon…

While in Part 1, I thought I covered all ground on this topic by curating the best content from the Internet, I had missed out on an important source there — Marty Cagan’s Empowered. Marty Cagan covered the topic of team scoping, which he calls topology, quite extensively in his…

In the recent days I have been deeply involved in restructuring product teams as my company is going through scaleup phase. The older team structures were no more suited for the growth phase we are in. I had to step back to find out what best practices are in place…