Product Management & Growth

Articles filed under Product Management & Growth.

NewsDec 10, 2020
The story of DoorDash: How it conquered the food delivery market with first principle thinking
DoorDash went IPO and is a story of sheer execution from first principle thinking. DoorDash (fourth) cofounder, Evan Charles Moore shares the journey. On 5/29/13 (my birthday!), I…
NewsDec 10, 2020
Why audio plus social is the next big idea in consumer startups
2/ Audio hits different. Listening to someone’s voice, live and unedited, is personal—the opposite of highlight-reel social media or the highly-produced, one-way nature of most…
NewsDec 9, 2020
Acing product launch 101: How to create buzz around your launch with “remarkable” strategies
Strategy 3: Offer a remarkable value prop @RobinhoodApp: “$0 commission stock brokerage” @Dropbox: “Throw away your USB drive” @gmail: “Free email w/ 1GB of storage” @netflix: “No…
NewsDec 8, 2020
Between Calm and Headspace, Here is how the battled panned out
My guess 1/ Calm was leaner so had to focus on building a simple and well-designed meditation app that was high quality and not focus on corporations and B2B deals. I remember…
NewsDec 8, 2020
From starting up to IPO, here is how DoorDash became America’s biggest food delivery provider from a distant third two years ago
I took over the NYC region three years after we first launched Manhattan & Brooklyn. The market was stagnant & unprofitable. Seamless had a 17 year head start and $0 delivery…
NewsDec 4, 2020
Why few founders and product leaders are able to build great businesses across different disconnected industries?
No. we aren’t just talking about Elon Musk and his ability to build great businesses in totally disconnected industries (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Open AI, Neuralink) But…
NewsDec 4, 2020
Startup India program demystified [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
The Startup India program is designed to boost the ecosystem in India and help them grow faster through multiple incentives and support extended by multiple Government agencies.…
NewsDec 3, 2020
Spotify Wrapped 2020: What makes it cool and share-worthy?
Spotify Wrapped: What makes it shareworthy
NewsDec 3, 2020
Zoho founder, Sridhar Vembu on Salesforce Slack Deal: Very soon we will see an exodus of talent out of Slack as cashed out engineers and product managers and marketers rush to the exits.
1/ The Salesforce – Slack acquisition demonstrates the “operating system” of the technology industry. The assumption is that professionals in Slack and professionals in Salesforce…
NewsDec 3, 2020
Why Google’s Poly failed when Apple is going big in AR
The original vision: “With Poly, our mission is to organize the world’s 3D information and make it universally accessible and useful” – @claybavor When it launched in 2017, Poly…
NewsDec 2, 2020
When Metalab rejected Slack’s equity offer (‘seemed like a “me too” product)
The world of startups and technology has been hit by thunder with the sale of Slack to business software pioneer Salesforce for an exorbitant sum of $27.7 billion. Opinions are…
NewsDec 1, 2020
How Duolingo grew enormously from 5M to 200M users in 5 years using product-led growth.
The genius of how @duolingo grew from 5M to 200M users in 5 years (!!!) using product-led growth. A long thread. Saddle on 👇🏾 1/ At volumes of millions, it’s impossible to grow…