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The Personalization Playbook: How Spotify, LinkedIn, and TikTok Drive Different Business Outcomes

November 16, 2025

Spotify: Engineering Listening Time Through Discovery Spotify’s metric is Time Spent Listening. The platform uses collaborative filtering and NLP to analyze over 2B user-generated…

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To Deploy or Not Deploy: The AI Salesbot Dilemma

November 16, 2025

I believe PulsePoint should move forward with the AI salesbot, but not immediately, and not in the way Weiss might envision. The competitive landscape…

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Product Sense Pushups: Onboarding

November 16, 2025

Product Onboarding Comparisons across Verticals We compared onboarding for three apps across various verticals: social (Instagram), productivity (Notion), finance (Venmo), identifying what information each…

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How Spotify, LinkedIn, and TikTok Use Personalization to Drive Business Metrics

November 16, 2025

Spotify: Personalization That Extends Listening Time Spotify’s entire retention strategy hinges on keeping users listening. Features like “Made for You” playlists, playing recommended songs…

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Should PulsePoint Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot Now or Wait?

November 16, 2025

The Strategic Crossroads PulsePoint stands at a pivotal inflection point. As CEO Jeannie Weiss returns from the Austin AI conference, she feels a renewed…

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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation

November 15, 2025

Spotify (listening time) Spotify’s personalization investments hinge on listening time. It also has a 30-second rule where a stream only counts if a track…

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BUSINESS: What should PulsePoint do?

November 15, 2025

Core tensions between innovation and cost structure There’s a lot of tough considerations to make around this case study and whether or not an…

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Product Sense Pushups: Oh no, an error!!!

November 13, 2025

Uber Errors are relatively common within the Uber app, typically when a rider request cannot be fulfilled or when the rider-driver connection has been…

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Response to Ethics Case Study

November 13, 2025

The question of ethics is perhaps one of the hardest, and most abstract, exercises of decision making. Though many decisions in the workplace lack…

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