Ravi Mehta
Product executive; chief product officer at Tinder, earlier a product director at Facebook and VP of product at Tripadvisor; co-founded the coaching platform Outpace and writes the newsletter Top 1% Builder.
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Their wordsBut if we accept that explanation without examining it, we haven’t solved the problem. We’ve made it easier to sound as though we have.
↗Fluency with Data.blog.ravi-mehta.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut flawless execution won’t rescue a product nobody needs.
↗Fluency with Data.blog.ravi-mehta.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their words“Activation fell” is an observation. An insight offers an explanation that changes what the team should do.
↗Fluency with Data.blog.ravi-mehta.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Years of customer loyalty can unravel in weeks when a product stops working the way people expect.
Their wordsBut the episode revealed something extraordinary: years of customer loyalty could unravel in a matter of weeks when the experience people depended on stopped working the way they expected.
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Consumer tech's pursuit of OKR impact starves craft and leaves products devoid of delight.
Their wordsWhen I started working on consumer tech, I was surprised at how little time was spent on that craft. Every ounce of effort needed to be justified against “impact” — in pursuit of an OKR. Often, that led to products feeling Spartan — devoid of delight.
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Their wordsOver my career consulting with dozens of companies on product strategy, I’ve found that the focus on differentiation is more destructive to clear strategic thinking than any other concept. The problem isn’t that differentiation is wrong — it’s that it’s incomplete.