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Marty Cagan

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book / likes

Build

“I love the new book from Tony Fadell called Build. It's a wonderful book and he's describing the product model, but for hardware devices and his perspective was fabulous. He had a front row seat to some of the most iconic products in the world, the iPod, the iPhone, the Nest devices. Love it. So I loved his book and I've been recommending it to all kinds of people. Another one I really liked is, do you know Tim Urban, the guy behind Wait But Why? Absolutely. I just love the way this guy thinks. And he wrote a book called What's Our Problem? that I found really provocative. Challenged me in a hundred different ways, so love that.”

Lenny's Podcast · 10 Mar 2024

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01 / recommendation

Likes Build.

“I love the new book from Tony Fadell called Build. It's a wonderful book and he's describing the product model, but for hardware devices and his perspective was fabulous. He had a front row seat to some of the most iconic products in the world, the iPod, the iPhone, the Nest devices. Love it. So I loved his book and I've been recommending it to all kinds of people. Another one I really liked is, do you know Tim Urban, the guy behind Wait But Why? Absolutely. I just love the way this guy thinks. And he wrote a book called What's Our Problem? that I found really provocative. Challenged me in a hundred different ways, so love that.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / belief

Too many people in our industry view themselves as a victim of their company, like they're stuck in a feature team and there's nothing they can do about it other than quit. I think that's not true.

“Too many people in our industry view themselves as a victim of their company, like they're stuck in a feature team and there's nothing they can do about it other than quit. I think that's not true.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / observation

I will tell you I've seen too many companies where the product leaders are not doing their job, so what they do is they hire product ops to try to do their job.

“I will tell you I've seen too many companies where the product leaders are not doing their job, so what they do is they hire product ops to try to do their job.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / evaluation

Because if you've been asked to solve these problems, that means you have to come up with a solution that's not only usable and feasible, which is what a feature team does, but is also valuable and viable.

“Because if you've been asked to solve these problems, that means you have to come up with a solution that's not only usable and feasible, which is what a feature team does, but is also valuable and viable.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / preference

Some people use the term product led company or product driven company, but those two we just don't like because it gives all the wrong message and the rest of the company thinks it's a power grab.

“Some people use the term product led company or product driven company, but those two we just don't like because it gives all the wrong message and the rest of the company thinks it's a power grab.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / evaluation

We would share those techniques 'cause that's what we share. But the single most common question we got honestly from the first edition of INSPIRED was that people would read the book and they would say, I love this, I want to do this.

“We would share those techniques 'cause that's what we share. But the single most common question we got honestly from the first edition of INSPIRED was that people would read the book and they would say, I love this, I want to do this.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / prediction

At a minimum, I tell people, and I've seen this countless times, at a minimum, your company will appreciate it and probably promote you because you will be one of the few that actually understands these things.

“At a minimum, I tell people, and I've seen this countless times, at a minimum, your company will appreciate it and probably promote you because you will be one of the few that actually understands these things.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / preference

For one, I love working with startups, but as you know, a lot of startups are dominated by the founder and the early people and it almost doesn't matter what techniques they use.

“For one, I love working with startups, but as you know, a lot of startups are dominated by the founder and the early people and it almost doesn't matter what techniques they use.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / evaluation

You obviously could describe what you do better than anyone, but my take is that you are, and this is what I find valuable, you're sharing a broad range, increasingly broad range of perspectives, people, ways of working, ways of doing products, experiments with the product model, experiments in leadership.

“You obviously could describe what you do better than anyone, but my take is that you are, and this is what I find valuable, you're sharing a broad range, increasingly broad range of perspectives, people, ways of working, ways of doing products, experiments with the product model, experiments in leadership.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / recommendation

The bigger surprise honestly is it's taken so long for so many companies to realize what is going on. And bottom line is today I think everybody, especially outside in those big process and role heavy companies, they need to take a hard look at how they build products and how they serve their customers.

“The bigger surprise honestly is it's taken so long for so many companies to realize what is going on. And bottom line is today I think everybody, especially outside in those big process and role heavy companies, they need to take a hard look at how they build products and how they serve their customers.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

It's essentially a project management role. But on an empowered product team, where you're trying to come up with a solution that solves the problem you've been assigned, that's much harder because that means we have to discover a solution that's valuable, usable, feasible, viable.

“It's essentially a project management role. But on an empowered product team, where you're trying to come up with a solution that solves the problem you've been assigned, that's much harder because that means we have to discover a solution that's valuable, usable, feasible, viable.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / preference

Most of my articles are inspired by questions that I have never got before. And so when I hear the same question enough, I realized maybe I should write about it.

“Most of my articles are inspired by questions that I have never got before. And so when I hear the same question enough, I realized maybe I should write about it.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / recommendation

If you need to spend a little time on the problem, fine, but don't spend a lot of time because you need to save as much time as possible to come up with the winning solution.

“If you need to spend a little time on the problem, fine, but don't spend a lot of time because you need to save as much time as possible to come up with the winning solution.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

19 / evaluation

I mean, first of all, what they've done with Stripe is so awesome and that's another great example and I love what they picked and choose from great companies to create a culture for themselves.

“I mean, first of all, what they've done with Stripe is so awesome and that's another great example and I love what they picked and choose from great companies to create a culture for themselves.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

20 / evaluation

I think that's a better explanation than any other that I've heard. And it was so prescient because when he said this, this had yet to even happen to so many other companies, but it still happens all the time.

“I think that's a better explanation than any other that I've heard. And it was so prescient because when he said this, this had yet to even happen to so many other companies, but it still happens all the time.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

21 / evaluation

There's a little bit, I mean, I'd say the thing that we do is we try to untangle the company's culture from the technique, because Amazon's got their favorite cultural stuff, google does, Netflix does Stripe does.

“There's a little bit, I mean, I'd say the thing that we do is we try to untangle the company's culture from the technique, because Amazon's got their favorite cultural stuff, google does, Netflix does Stripe does.”
Speaker
Marty Cagan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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