Kassen Qian

In February of 2021 I put up my first piece, which became one of the first music videos on blockchain. It sold in three minutes and was bought by Jacob, the CEO of Zora. I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is crazy.”

1. Shipping - The most basic need that a PM satisfies is shipping features. This involves day-to-day tackling of large and small decisions that block the successful release of a new feature.

There is just the feeling that it should all be exceptional. We should push for an extreme quality bar on all of the fronts.

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

Our core philosophy is: We create innovative products while managing risk by prototyping early and cheaply.

Provides questions you can ask during a job search to sniff out strong product orgs.

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

The Lean Startup model has pretty much become the orthodoxy for launching a new product or company today: build an extremely rough version one, launch it, find some users, and then iterate on the product as quickly as you can (pivoting).

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.