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

How @Linear builds product: 1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design. 2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done. 3. No metrics-based goals. Just a North Star company-level metric goal. 4. No A/B tests. Decisions are b... See more

One of the things that's really hard in a larger company is sharing and repeating stories. This is less about the company’s founding and such, but rather “What is our strategy? What are we trying to achieve? What are we doing?” Though people can look up our OKRs, it's not quite the same. If someone new starts tomorrow, they're going to get directed... See more

In order to launch and market your product, you need to be able to answer the following questions: Where do I find innovators, early adopters, and potential design partners willing to give us a try? What are the major problems my product solves, and how important are these problems to my potential customers? Is this the right problem, and is ours t

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Audience question: So you mentioned that once you get product market fit, you inevitably get a lot of product feedback and feature requests. So I was wondering what's your framework to sort of separate the noise from the signal for figuring out what to build and what to take seriously and what to just ignore?

Dylan Field: I'm happy to give a gener

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When the balance skews towards  Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up wit

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