If you could be a maker for any company, who is the company you'd choose and why?
Larry Mickie
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall, mirroring Snapchat's Product & Experience teams. From positioning themselves as a brand to creating and maintaining an intimate space within the app, I'd be interested in learning how the magic happens!
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover
Product Hunt
Fun topic, @larrymickie. Snap is up there for me too.
I'd love to sit in various Twitter meetings. They have many big challenges to overcome with their product and seeing how teams execute within a larger org than I've ever worked in would be enlightening.
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@rrhoover @larrymickie It's got to be Twitter for me too for all of the reasons Ryan mentioned and also to learn how decision making has to happen when the smallest changes you make affects millions of people, it blows my mind.
If it were 2015, I would have loved to be with Product Hunt. I have closely watched their each milestone, how they accelerated by being community-driven, and it is such an amazing piece of work.
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@larrymickie exactly! I loved being in the chemistry lab during school days and feel like I'd enjoy being in a lab coat hehe.
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Sweetgreen, it's the details. Check out the drip: https://shop.sweetgreen.com
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Away would be one. Interesting to see how an industry as seemingly predictable and "matured" as luggage can be disrupted with a travel-as-a-lifestyle brand intentionally built around it. Also Stitch Fix because there are so many virtual stylists and subscription boxes for clothing out there that it would be neat to see how the use of algorithms and machine learning differentiate it. The supply chain operations of both would be fascinating to understand.
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@christinayluo oOOOoo, i never heard of Away before. I've always found teams that build brand intentionally into their products intriguing. I have to take a look at stitch fix. How do you measure experience in a subscription box? Sounds like a good weekend read/research project.
Robot Recipes
really interesting question!
I would love to be involved with Google X or similar that is tackling really big problems with few constraints.
But also would be fun to be a part of companies that are making product decisions for something at a huge scale where every decision impacts hundreds of millions of people...
Goodreads, probably because it's related to something I'm building right now. If I were on on their team I'd probably understand why they're leaving so much on the table. What drives their decision to not pursue what seems like obvious improvements in their product.
Maybe I wouldn't need to be building what I am building ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@fromjamrock that's a good choice.
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Figma 1.0
Or Vectary 2.0
I like how they think....
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@michael_andreuzza definitely great products too! Its been great to see the growth of both products.
Coinbase would be fascinating, a lot going on in that sector! Curious how they manage so much change and uncertainty. Seems like a place that would benefit from and be open to innovative ideas!
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@builtbystephen Great point! How do you build a solid road map around something with so much change? I'd like to learn that too.
Basecamp, because I've been following them for a long time and I love everything they do. They are one of those rare companies that have a ton of self-awareness and a solid philosophy that aligns with my own.
Yeah totally, I forgot the mention bootstrapping, though it's one of their most important traits. Probably a lot of their beliefs stem from that. What's interesting is that the employee churn is very low - people just don't leave Basecamp.
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@brbcoding I also like the fact that they bootstrapped as well. I always wondered was their any correlation between companies that bootstrapped and self-awareness.
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@bartolomej thats a good one. What interests you the most about them?
@larrymickie I just like the idea of AI being shared and open to anyone
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@bartolomej 100% agree.
You might want to check your grammar.
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