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Episode 25 - Getting to Product/Market Fit and Building Effective Product Teams (with Harpal Singh, Product Consultant & Interim CPO)
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Episode 25: Getting to Product/Market Fit and Building Effective Product Teams
Harpal Singh, Product Consultant & Interim CPO
13 Jan 2021
About the Episode
Harpal is an award-winning product consultant and interim CPO with long experience working with a variety of startups and helping them set up effective product teams and achieving Product/Market Fit. We talk about his journey and specifically:
- The benefits of being a consultant and how it's helped him to be a better leader
- His passion for Product/Market Fit and why he wrote a playbook on it
- His ambitions for the book and how it's helped him challenge his assumptions
- What Product/Market Fit really means, why it's not just about MVPs, and the concept of a "Hair On Fire" problem
- The importance of Marketing when finding Product/Market Fit and not being led solely by technology
- The variability of the Product Manager role between companies & the importance of a career plan
- The perils of poor LinkedIn content
Contact Harpal
You can reach out to Harpal on LinkedIn.
Get the playbook
You can get Harpal's free e-book here: The Elusive Art And Science Of Finding Product/Market Fit.
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