Adam M. Root
@adamroot
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Empowering growth through innovation and resilience.
Park City, UT
Joined January 2008
I came back to Oklahoma, but part of me is still in the Wasatch Range. Utah taught me to hear God. Home feels louder. Reading Genesis reminded me: Noah’s faith looked lonely, but it preserved a future. Maybe our unease is preparation. 👉
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Learning to Hold Fast When the World Feels Unsteady
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When Jesus tried to explain ‘Salvation’ to his disciples Jesus sat on the mount, exhausted. Not from the sermon. From the meeting afterward. "Master," Peter said, pulling out a scroll. "We've been working on the messaging framework for your teachings. Want to see the value
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When someone reacts aggressively to your calmness they are having a conversation in their head that you are not a part of. Their filter has been bypassed and driving their reaction. Rather than retaliate, ask what else is at play.
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How you talk to your engineers, stakeholders, and users has a ripple effect. It affects how they talk to their family when they go home. The right sentence at the right time can change lives or ruin them.
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Cursing too much in your leadership communication is like over seasoning food.
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When you are thinking about what to tell someone ask yourself what you want them to know. Read it again, until it syncs in.
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There ain’t no good guy. There ain’t no bad guy. There’s just you and me and we just disagree. -Dave Mason, “We Just Disagree”
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6/ 📖 Read the full breakdown in this week’s CXO Dispatch:
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Adam Root, Chief Product Officer, Founder, and host of two podcasts for product leaders, took a hospitality SaaS platform from zero to 50% compounding annual growth in five months by doing exactly...
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5/ If you’re stuck in the feature-chasing cycle: Let your users write the first draft. Then turn it into something they can’t live without.
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4/ The result? •50%+ compounding growth •Users who fought to keep the product •A team building with conviction
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3/ We tracked signals that actually mattered: •NPS spikes •Referral bumps •Product invites Forget dashboards. Signals > vanity.
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2/ We aligned the entire company around one story: “How do we save 2 hours/day for a front desk manager?” This one use case became our shared north star.
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1/ We stopped using personas and started watching real users. The struggle we saw in spreadsheets and workarounds? That became our product brief.
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We hit 50%+ CAGR in SaaS by not writing our own roadmap. Instead of building features, we built around 1 question: “What if our users told us what to build?” That shift changed everything. Here’s the 3-part playbook that led to breakout growth 🧵
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We replaced ladders and clipboards with drones + machine learning across 242 franchises. +49% inspections +33% productivity New revenue unlocked. The real win? Fixing outdated workflows. Full story → https://t.co/j4UJtBEoZ3
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Stop saying “why is life so hard” and take life’s “hardness” as the call to rise up against evil and take it head on.
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The path of least resistance is rarely the right path to take: Resist the devil - James 4:7
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