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On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
Ted Persson
tedpersson
Operating Partner
On product, empathy
and creating a user
centric culture
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
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On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
Stockholm | London | Berlin | Amsterdam | Luxembourg | San Francisco
24 years
Founded in 1994
Wallenberg
Family
540 ppl
14 countries
250
Industrial advisors
EUR 49bn
300 investments
110,000+
Portfolio employees
On Product – from Techsylvania 2018
On product, empathy
and creating a user
centric culture
Engineering
Technology
Design
User
Business
Revenue
Product
“The role of a product manager
is to discover a product that is
valuable, usable and feasible”
Marty Cagan
Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group
SVP Product, eBay, Netscape, HP
Product
Engineering
Business
Design
TechnologyUser
Revenue
We all own the product
3
Tips to get started
1
On hiring your ?rst product person
A product doer or a ?
product manager?
Who would the product manager manage?
Product manager
Lead the
company
Lead the
product
Lead the
company
Lead the
product
“Great founders think about product, but
exceptional founders ask the tough
questions about who should lead the
company vs who should lead the product.”
Martin Eriksson
Founder Mind the Product,?
Executive-in-residence, EQT Ventures
Product
Engineering
Business
Design
TechnologyUser
Revenue
Product
Engineer
Business developer
Designer
Product
Engineer
Business developer
Designer
Do not evaluate using the
engineer ?lter only
Get outside help if needed
Product management
Data science
Product design
Great user researcher
UX design
UI design
Frontend
Fluent in Sketch, Photoshop, Invision
Fluent in HTML, CSS, JS, React
…
The right level of
experience
CPO
VP Product
Product Director
Product Manager
Product Designer
…
Building a
product
Scaling a
product
Leading a large
team of product
managers
Building a
product
Scaling a
product
Leading a large
team of product
managers
Intern
UI ?
designer
Product ?
Manager
Product?
Director
Product ?
Designer
VP ?
Product
CPO
Someone with conceptual
thinking, but don’t mind
getting their hands dirty
GAFA is not
necessarily better
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon
1
On hiring your ?rst product person
2
Getting o? the ground
“I need wireframes for
feature XYZ tomorrow”
“Let’s discuss product 惫颈蝉颈辞苍”
Gradually give away
responsibility
Manage expectations
Educate the engineering team
Avoid the ?
“Product Messiah” ?
trap
Pair up with a product doer
Product Designer, UX designer, UI designer
2
Getting o? the ground
3
Making it stick
Product : Design : Development ratio
Exploration
Product : Design : Development
1 1 1: :
Development
Product : Design : Development
1 1 7: :
Developer:designer ratio
Source: Techcrunch
Start dating your users
’Quick and dirty’ focus groups
Let product and design work
one sprint ahead
“If you’re only using your
engineers to code, you’re only
getting half their value”
Marty Cagan
Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group
SVP Product, eBay, Netscape, HP
Research De?ne the problem Design the solution Development
Product & design
Engineering
Agile
Lean
Six Sigma Prince IIWaterfall
Kanban
Scrum
Ethnographic
Research
Agile
Lean
Six Sigma Prince IIWaterfall
Kanban
Scrum
Design
Thinking
Design
Sprints
Discovery
Sprints
Dual-track
Agile
Don’t shoehorn everything
into your existing
development process
Friction
Product
Engineering
Design
ta Science
Cross-functional
Design ProductEngineers
Product Marketing
We are storytelling animals
3
Making it stick
1
On hiring your
?rst product
person
2
Getting o?
the ground
3
Making it
stick
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