Kassen Qian

Good product managers err on the side of clarity vs. explaining the obvious. Bad product managers never explain the obvious. Good product managers define their job and their success. Bad product managers constantly want to be told what to do.

But an orientation toward storytelling and vision can sometimes cause challenges with execution : The only new product launch that succeeded was Airbnb.com. Every other big launch over the last eight years has actually been a complete flop.

Users constitute an essential source of information, up to and including their interactions with prototypes and as paying customers.

2. Strong Product Leadership: in strong product companies, the product leaders are among the most impactful leaders in the company.

You’re a super user: Eat your own dog food and talk to people who do too.

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)

I do want to hit mainstream, and I will, but I think I'm more excited about what we’re doing here because it's new soil. We're really planting the seeds of a garden that's gonna prosper.

Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.

The absence of one or more is almost certainly correlated with weak product organizations.