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@BlackRock, previously built products & platforms @AmericanExpress & @United. Intermittently training for next 🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️
New York, NY
Joined April 2009
That's a wrap on Interrupt 2025! 🚀 🌎 800 agent engineers from across the globe gathered in San Francisco for LangChain's first industry conference to hear stories of teams building agents – and we’re still riding the high! @Cisco, @Uber, @Replit, @LinkedIn, @BlackRock,
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As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the PM role and GM roles are going to merge. You won't be a great GM unless you deeply understand software, along with understanding your domain. /5
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a little behind-the-scenes of the product design and interface development work behind #AdobeFirefly from @Adobe design team - ultimately AI is one of those technologies where the user’s experience is as critical as the tech itself. still early days
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A look at the design thinking and strategy behind the new technology
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McKennon could have spent the rest of his life telling his children and grandchildren about the time he scored a touchdown in the superbowl. I'm sure he has dreamed of that moment since he was a child, and knows he may never get the opportunity again. Instead, with 1 min left, he
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What happens if you take too long to launch: your product is defined by its relationship to whatever launched first. That casual appositive phrase is worth more to Microsoft than any news story.
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Not sure we need a McKinsey study for this insight, but still…”If you think your company isn’t a software company, you’re mistaken, according to McKinsey”
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Traditional companies realize they must look, think, and act like a software company to stay competitive, research finds.
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When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.
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Is AI taking over the design world? I used ChatGPT to build a yoga app screen and was blown away. Check out the results and see if AI is the future of design:
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"You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back to the technology — not the other way around. I’ve probably made this mistake more than anybody, and I’ve got the scar tissue to prove it." -Steve Jobs
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B2B and B2C Product Management are very different. I worked for 5 years as a Product Manager in B2B and for 9 months (so far) in Consumer. While this will likely not be an exhaustive list, here are the 8 biggest differences I've seen. 🧵👇
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There’s a multibillion dollar startup opportunity waiting to be built in wealth management. - Large Market: 600k millennials with $3T+ in assets - Fragmented: Mix of legacy institutions and 1000+ boutiques - Low NPS: Subpar product experience Here’s how I think it plays out:
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I'm not surprised that Adobe is acquiring Figma for $20B, nor that Wall Street doesn't understand it and $ADBE stock is down more than $20B today. It's a smart move for Adobe because it's nearly impossible to make legacy software applications multi-user collaborative. Thread: 🧵
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“In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly letting go.” I wasn’t expecting to read that when I picked up Thinking in Systems, but it makes a lot of sense https://t.co/RZKJXGk231
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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, —the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer...
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Sequoia Capital released a 52-page presentation warning founders of a 'crucible moment' and a 'longer recovery' ahead. Here are the 10 key takeaways every business owner must know:
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With so much going on in the world, it was inspiring to hear the 9 @FfwdOrg tech non-profit pitches tonight. Congrats to @ersiliaio for the @BlackRock awarded grant!
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Russia had for centuries taken Ukrainian history & culture as its own, & then was left naked with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. “The powerful and glorious Russia is a country without history, and that is what alarms Putin the most,” https://t.co/QJuNsER6Px
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Ihor Kalynets, 83, spent a lifetime resisting Soviet domination. Now, he says, he’s not going anywhere.
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This is not a photo from 1941. This is a photo from March 2022 with all the color taken out. So angry. So sad.
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Thank you @Starbucks - I’m back tomorrow! Starbucks suspending all business activity in Russia
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Sad to see @Starbucks not taking a stand in Russia’s invasion. I’ve always admired @HowardSchultz and thought he set a high bar for business ethics. I get the revenue impact is big, but beyond just being the right thing to do, the long term brand impact is huge. Pausing my habit
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Ukraine's president is more than a lion who found his roar. He's a lion protecting his pride. Charisma attracts attention. Courage earns admiration. But commitment to a group inspires loyalty. We follow leaders who fight for us. We make sacrifices for leaders who serve us.
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