In this episode, Megan Hughes, an expert in product monetization strategies, discusses the importance of monetization and the value exchange. She explores topics such as monetization strategies for B2C products, optimizing existing subscription products, artifacts and testing methods in product monetization, and the importance of constant communication and alignment. Megan also emphasizes the significance of communicating and evangelizing product strategy for better outcomes and understanding.

Frank Harris, VP of Platform Product at Slack, discusses the complexity of formulating a platform strategy. He explains the value of integrations in driving growth and the need for a clear go-to-market vision. The team at Slack also talks about reducing friction and improving modularity in their platform. They discuss feedback loops, collaboration, and the importance of a product-led and sales-led approach in technical product strategy.

Markiyan Matsekh, ex-Director of Product at Vimeo, shares insights on expansion strategies and product-led growth. He discusses the importance of Vimeo's positioning and differentiation in a crowded market. He also shares a story of a failed strategy, highlighting the importance of these concepts.

In this podcast, they discuss resource allocation in multi-product strategies, creating separate product visions, visualizing resource allocation decisions, developing and prioritizing product goals, motivation and challenges of different product teams, and balancing expectation management and iterative strategy.

Stefan Schnabl, a senior product manager at Google, shares insights about working in the education space. He discusses aligning on direction, research and experimentation, and identifying strong opportunities. The podcast explores challenges in creating a strategy for learning, evaluating automation, formulating and communicating a product strategy, and driving change with empathy. It also touches upon change management and insights shared by the guest on LinkedIn and his blog.

In this podcast, strategy expert Itamar Gilad shares insights on evidence-guided strategy. Topics include uncovering strategic opportunities, exploring and validating ideas, and connecting goals, ideas, and opportunities. A discussion on the success of Netflix streaming and additional resources concludes the episode.

Thor Mitchell, a platform strategy expert and Product Director at Miro, shares his journey from Google Maps to leading Miro's platform team. He discusses the unique challenges of developing a platform strategy, particularly in balancing consumer and developer needs. Thor dives into establishing success metrics, emphasizing their role in tracking progress and aligning teams. He also highlights the importance of empathy in product management, advocating for better communication to enhance strategy, while exploring innovative methods to elevate Miro's platform.

Startup challenges change as they grow. The focus and needs of the product strategy also change, as the company moves through funding rounds and product maturity stages. What are the critical factors leaders should consider at each stage? How does collaboration among different areas evolve? What’s the impact of funding rounds on focus areas? In this episode of 100 Product Strategies, we spoke with Lily Smith, CPO at BBC Maestro and co-host of the Product Experience podcast, who has been taking product leadership roles at startups at different stages. We discussed the strategic implications of technical scalability, user experience improvement, and business expansion. Lily compared how challenges evolve from pre-market-fit stages to the scale-up period. You can find Lily on Linkedin! Remember that you can find more info and material on productdirection.co/podcast. If you are eager to know more about product strategy, check out Product Direction: How to build successful products at scale with Strategy, Roadmaps, and OKRs You can also contact or follow your host, Nacho Bassino, at productdirection.co (training, coaching, and more)

We all love good strategy stories. What is better than good strategy stories? The ones that are simple and that we can derive lessons to apply elsewhere. In this episode, Saeed Khan shares his stories and thoughts collected over 25 years of product management experience. Different from other episodes, in this one, we started with the core elements of strategy, which Saeed simplifies as building hypotheses on how you can achieve certain objectives. Making some mapping to the Playing to Win framework, he simplified the result of strategy as a set of Goals connected with Measures, which are connected to Actions. We also reviewed some examples so you can apply these simple steps to your products.

Over the last 18 months, I have interviewed 29 product leaders, inquiring about their strategy formulation and challenges. We covered different industries, customer types, company scales, product types, and geographies. As I shared in the podcast intro, after writing Product Direction, I felt we didn’t have enough examples out there of how people do strategy work and what challenges they face. My secret project all along was to compile a list of different examples and also tag them accordingly so product leaders could listen to stories they felt were related to their context. https://productdirection.substack.com/p/my-secret-summary-of-30-real-life Let's review my takeaways and where you can get the summary of all past episodes!