For the past few years, Rand has worked in this limbo between the big picture and control freak-ness. Having been CEO of Moz from its inception until 2014, Rand now acts as an “individual contributor.” He’s occasionally referred to this new role as “product designer,” only to qualify it as “not the UX/UI kind, but the strategic ‘this is what we’re gonna build and why’ kind.”
There’s an old saying: You can lead a user to a platform, but you can’t make them move through the onboarding flow in the way you’d like. Or maybe you can, but only with a lot of testing.
Why do some companies survive while others burn out? The answer isn’t found only in product and growth metrics, nor is it in the finance team’s spreadsheets. Instead, it’s somewhere in between.
CEO Michael Preysman hasn’t espoused a Bezos-esque plan for market takeover (such aggression is off-brand), but a number of Everlane's novel experiments seem to be in this vein.
On the Obama campaign, Harper Reed would be at the helm of a tech product that was like few others. Failure could not cascade out of control. Complete failure here didn’t mean you took your shot and just missed; it meant that the leader of the free world was out of a job.
Statsbot, the bot company that made a Slack bot for robotmia, cuts down on the ad hoc queries and helps people be more productive. But Statsbot isn’t just making robotmia users’ lives easier – it’s also a leading example of how bots-for-businesses will become as common as wearing hoodies to work.
Today, celebrity apps aren’t just changing how developers build apps. Celebrity apps have upended the gaming market, and that market is (finally) women. Powered by largely female brands that don’t have an ounce of virtual blood or dragons, celebrity apps are now some of the biggest sources of revenue in the male-centric gaming market.
For the past few years, we’ve had the brightest minds in tech coming through on a monthly basis to talk about how they used data to build awesome products. We’ve seen speakers from startups, enterprise businesses, and incubators. Here's what they say and how they say it.
Straight from the robotmia offices, our iOS engineers, Sam Green and Sergio Alonso, share how we built our mobile analytics app.
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