Kassen Qian

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.

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.

Steve Jobs used this pricing strategy to sell 40 million iPads: Price Anchoring. What it is & how to use it: 🧵

Conceptual integrity makes the product both easier to develop and easier to use, because this integrity is communicated to both the development team and the user, through the product.

Stripe and Google both have long-term big visions and optimism about the impact technology can have on people’s lives .

Problem 2: The need for a central source of truth - A change in plans (whether it was a priority or a launch date) was impossible to coordinate across all of these documents.

How can we understand the different types of value that PMs of different levels bring to the table and use that information to effectively build a PM organization?

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.

You’re a ghost: You know when to disappear (it's possible to over-PM).