Alex Karim Howard

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1,136 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 22 Jan

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Series A Blueprint – The playbook for founders scaling to Series A · Welcome to the product founder era! · 30 Oct 2025 podcast

in product teams amongst clients is the perception that engineers are too slow.

For those who are listening to the audio only, I put that in between quotation marks because some engineers of course are slow, but most of the time it has to do

With how you're conducting.

or guiding product management as a process inside of your org.

And namely a lot of the product leadership operating ways that you're going to carry out are going to determine the speed to ROI.

And the whole art of product leadership is actually getting to value sooner for the customer.

Especially in the pre series A round, right?

Your

Giving, you're creating value as much as possible.

The capturing can kind of happen later as long as you're demonstrating that that's happening.

You can up your prices as you deliver more value.

So yeah, I've worked with a lot of customers that sort of had the perception that no value was being delivered for, you know, up to four months.

And that's an insane amount of time before series eight, right?

I mean, these rounds.

You pretty much have twelve months to get to

readiness to to to attain the metrics and the traction that you've promised.

And then you kind of want to leave a sort of three to six month buffer to start fundraising.

So four months is already like a third of that time.

So how are you going to shorten those gaps where you're not actually getting to that value soon enough?

And

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