Kassen Qian

You’re an inventor : Great PMs are usually creative types, who can generate and churn through many ideas all at once, to arrive at solutions to difficult and multi-faceted problems.

The Think It stage ends when management and the squad jointly believe that this product is worth building.

The Build It stage ends when management and the squad jointly believe that this product fulfills the basic narrative and is good enough to start releasing to real users.

Fixed time, variable scope.

Another one of the biggest benefits of a written PR/FAQ is that it enables the team to truly understand the specific constraints and problems that would prevent a new product idea from being viable and aligning on them.

You can ship product like Figma, with this Coda doc

Three consistent themes for identifying winning product organizations:

The way you get things done is very relationship-driven at our company. So you have to be able to build influence.

One of our operating principles is “really, really care.” It’s craftsmanship and a huge amount of dedication to getting all of the details right.