Tag: strategy
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Why Stripe bought OpenRouter
Your bank sees your transactions with them. Your credit card provider sees theirs. Your mortgage lender sees theirs. None of them sees the whole picture of how you behave as a borrower, because each only sees their own slice. That’s what a credit bureau is for, it sits across every lender and sells the aggregated…
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The Decision Stack (Book Review)
Ask ten people to define “strategy” and you’ll get ten different answers. There’s no shortage of books and frameworks to help us think strategically, but formulating and aligning on one is still a genuinely difficult exercise. I’ve found that the hard part isn’t defining the vision or mapping out the steps to get there. It’s…
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“Impact-first Product Teams” (Book Review)
There are two things that frustrate me when I see some product managers and teams at work. First, PMs and teams not making a tangible impact. Instead, these teams just focus on releasing features “that the business has asked for”. Second, PMs talking about “the business” as if it was a separate entity that they’re…
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My Product Management Toolkit (64): Buy vs Build
Tim Cook on Apple’s approach to deciding when to build: “We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.” Jeff Bezos on AWS and deciding when to buy: “We build muck, so you don’t have…
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“The Crux” (Book Review)
“Good Strategy. Bad Strategy” is one of my favourite books on strategy and one that I often refer back to. In “Good Strategy. Bad Strategy”, corporate strategy expert Richard Rumelt writes about the ‘kernel’ of a good strategy. This kernel has three elements: (1) a diagnosis of the main challenge or problem, (2) a guiding…
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