Gaia Soykok

The free rider effect appears when the winner firm of an R&D race is not capable of appropriating the full revenue of its innovation

as a guest,  be a host 

consider that information asymmetry, far from being a source of market failures, is a condition for market opportunities to emerge. In this view, opportunities exist only because individuals do not possess substitutable information sets (either complete or incomplete) regarding market forces and technology.

Incentives, a version of what psychologists call extrinsic motivators, do not alter the attitudes that underlie our behaviors. They do not create an enduring commitment to any value or action. Rather, incentives merely—and temporarily—change what we do.

Where you get your energy is important, what kinds of problems? what segments? For Gokul it is small businesses and individuals.

She then found the angle of a new manager going through and figuring it out. And also decided the process will make her a better manager.

Where should PM roles sit? Could be a GM or reporting CPO to CEO structure. Once you are 4 or 5 PM, there has to be a product lead to set the culture.

Herzberg wrote 25 years ago (“One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” January–February 1968), a “KITA”—which, he coyly explains, stands for “kick in the pants”—may produce movement but never motivation.