A short motivational talk by Jason M. Lemkin urging product teams to prioritize customer happiness by injecting energy and ambition into product work in the coming year. He argues product teams should focus on doing a few truly great things (not just incremental or bureaucratic work) that make customers happier and revive momentum within startups and larger companies.
Find the delight in the delight in product is making customers happy. It's not worth it otherwise it's otherwise it's drudgery and it's it's endless PRDs and Gantt charts and mindless discussions make your customers happier this year you will be happy. This is the year of product and we we all get a pass for whatever whatever bad deeds we did or mediocre deeds we did in 2023. Get back and be the vanguard in your companies Startups need and and bigger companies they need someone to inject energy again in many cases energy has been lost and it would be great if product can do it and say listen let's do something like even if we're not exactly sure how to get more leads okay even if we're not exactly sure what to do there's one thing under our control is the code we write and the product we ship let's do some three great things this year let's just do them not good Great let's do three great.
