Three launches that skipped the test card November 6, 2026 Quibi, the Humane AI Pin, and Juicero each raised substantial capital, launched at full scale, and ceased operations within two years. In each case,… Continue Reading
What Three Famous Metrics Really Measured October 28, 2026 Goodhart’s Law says that once a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure. Airbnb: nights booked A night gets booked… Continue Reading
Three Meeting Notetakers, Three Different Promises October 20, 2026 Granola, Otter, and Fireflies all record a meeting, transcribe it, and produce notes. Their homepages frame that task for different buyers. Granola calls itself… Continue Reading
Coinbase’s Early Pitch October 14, 2026 The deck shows the problem on Slide 6, titled “Too Difficult To Use.” It puts the tools people had at the time, a plain… Continue Reading
Three Ways to Sell to Product Managers October 5, 2026 Jira, Linear, and Productboard all sell to PMs. Each entered a different kind of market and bet on a different PM need. Jira –… Continue Reading
Who Gets to Say No? September 30, 2026 At Spotify, each squad of six to twelve people owns one feature area, and its product owner sets the order of the squad’s work…. Continue Reading
