Kassen Qian

The typical time horizon for a product team’s north star, or long-term vision, is three to four years out.

You’re a janitor: You do as much of the dirty work as possible so everyone else doesn’t have to (so the team operates more efficiently)

6. Always Be Grooming New Leaders: Articulate the mission early in candidate interviews. Hire listeners that display intellectual curiosity. Offer high-performing PMs opportunities to onboard others.

About 72% of that music NFT revenue can be attributed to the electronic music genre. Hip hop/R&B/Soul came in second, with Rock/Alternative third.

1. The Role of Technology: in strong product companies, technology is not an expense, it is the business.

Kwan's Hierarchy of Product Needs:

4. Don't Confuse Micromanagement with Miscommunication: Contextualize why it needs to be done in the first place.

Somebody can go deep, like all the way down, and then distill it back out to everybody else. So you don’t have to do all of that work yourself. It does require a lot of reading for sure, but the benefit is great clarity of thought on complex topics. Engineers, partnerships, PMs, everybody is producing documents.