Kassen Qian

I initially did this solely for monetary gain. But then when I started getting deeper into it, I found community. I met real dope people that were really there for me. I found newer forms of creativity that I didn't even think I had. I feel like being a community leader is a creative to a great extent as well. And that changed my whole outlook on... See more

3. Empowered Product Teams: in strong product companies, teams are instead given problems to solve, rather than features to build, and most important, they are empowered to solve those problems in the best way they see fit.

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

We don’t launch on date, we launch on quality.

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.

The PR/FAQ process merely increases the odds that your product would succeed; it doesn’t guarantee it.

Good product managers think about the story they want written by the press. Bad product managers think about covering every feature and being really technically accurate with the press.