Product Leader | Scaling product orgs 0→1→N | Available for advisory | AI-first product development
Joined March 2009
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You're about to make your third PM hire. Are you building coordination capacity, or coordination debt that will stall you at Series B?
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The decisions that stall you at Series B aren't hiring decisions. They're structural ones disguised as temporary workarounds. Every "we'll fix this when we're bigger" is a debt payment made at 3x the original cost.
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Save this before your next PM hire. The best time to make these structural calls is before the team has already outgrown the workaround.
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Jun 15
Most CPOs think their job is getting devs onto AI tools. Faros AI measured 25-39% individual productivity gains with zero improvement in delivery velocity. Your devs got faster. Your org didn't. Converting saved hours into shipped outcomes: that's the job now.
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Jun 4
Stop routing every solution build request through a PM. At Aerones, I gave non-product people a structured build path instead. Our ops manager shipped a scheduling tool she'd requested for two years - in weeks.
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May 28
There was a moment when three engineers quit in the same week.
I was blindsided. We'd had lunch together. Things felt fine.
The signals had been there for months. I just had no system to see them.
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May 28
So I built a simple assessment I wish I'd had before.
A 3-minute diagnostic. 15 questions.
It gives you back your weakest dimension and one concrete move to make this week.
No theory. No 40-page framework. A reference point and a first step.
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May 28
If you lead a team, take 3 minutes.
Then tell me if the result rings true.
operatingleader.com/cetag
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May 20
The bottleneck isn’t who can build it anymore. It’s who knows what to build.
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