Kassen Qian

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.

Features work as a management control because they manifest in the final product, and their relationship to programmer-hours is about as close to linear as you’re going to get.

4. Celebrate wins

5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."

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. The Role of Technology: in strong product companies, technology is not an expense, it is the business.

Communication & Visibility: You build relationships that help the team get things done. You ensure the product’s story is told, and understood, internally and externally. You create collateral that can be leveraged by GTM teams.

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.