Mo Shafieeha

It probably gives you an idea of context discovery when doing organization design in a large corporation. To understand what might need to change and why Microsoft's CEO Steve Sinofsky had to go through 'three months of 100 meetings. Windows leadership had to balance incentives with the structure for the organizational change to be successful.... See more

AirBnB's early videos were polished and polished, but made listings look less authentic. Hosts focused on the details they thought were important and filmed without format guidelines or keywords. Gone was the professional camerawork, or at least the qualities that hinted at it. AirBnB's videos are more relatable and authentic. The company switched... See more

Anticipate Failure Anything that could improve connectivity is a positive thing to look forward to. The key is keeping client latency low and ensuring clients are prepared for very high traffic with cache control, sidecars, timeouts, circuit breakers, and retries. In addition to improving healthy signals from the services, it's critical to... See more

Companies with relatively low marketing and sales budgets often use freemium services. As a result, the company converts code into marketing expenditures. It provides service X to generate qualified leads for interconnected service Y. Freemium services with strong network effects do not all. It's not network effects that give you salty peanuts to... See more

G: If you don’t follow the PDLC (Product Development Life Cycle). Do not let others dictate your Product Development process. These guidelines/steps are imperial in achieving success, and every small step is important.

2. Market Structure "Market structure" also matters, as does market size. Airbnb's success was attributed to releasing a new market of inventory for travelers tired of paying too much for hotels. Less than 10% of Public Storage's $2.4 billion in sales are controlled. After a year in the market, MakeSpace's biggest issue was CAC (customer... See more