The Product Takedown

In this episode, I discuss...

1. The Good: Customer-centricity and a core of True Fans

2. The Ugly: An allegedly toxic work culture, compliancy risks & betting it all on asset management

Here my thoughts on why Loom, a screen recording software (loom.com), has grown exponentially since launch. In this episode, I discuss...

1. The unique insight driving Loom

2. The power of focus

3. Baked-in virality

4. How clarity around vision & product strategy builds a strong foundation for the future

In this episode, I talk about...

2. Aligning beliefs with words with actions

3. Why we've decided not to raise investment & pursue rapid scale

In this episode, we cover:

- The economics of Nomadlist

- The importance of churn and LTV

- Why to be wary about financial projections

In this episode, I cover...

1. What happened to all those red bikes?!

2. What net losses of $6.77 billion mean for Uber

3. Turning on the tap of profitability is a myth

4. The clustered network v. global network

5. Uber's demise?

In this episode with Micheal, we covered...

1. The flaws of Microsoft teams

2. How Butter.us misses the fundamentals of any video conferencing tool

3. Why both of us ran back to Zoom with our tails between our legs

4. An important takeaway from this episode

- What is a Thielian Secret?

- Why products need one unique driver?

- Examples of different unique insights

- Unsplash's Thielian Secret

“The dogs that didn’t bark during the pandemic”, according to an article by The Guardian, GDS has been heralded as incredibly innovate. But why specifically? And what lessons can we learn?

In this episode with guest, Dan Wong (Senior PM, Truelayer), we covered...

1. Finding innovation in a surprising place

2. Specific things they did well, such as implementing a Design System, effective SEO & open-source code

3. Under-estimating the backlash to change

1. What were Quibi's core hypotheses (which they failed to validate)

2. 3 major screw-ups they made along the way

3. A lesson in poor leadership

4. The dangers of sunk-cost bias, confirmation bias & becoming distracted by investment

In this episode, we look at Headspace:

1. Addressing the internal v. external problem

2. Positioning on web v. iPad v. iPhone

3. Their product strategy & value-stacking