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Maria Angelidou

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402 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

And so as a leader, you have to reward both and you have to overcompensate for the fact that the latter is harder.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

No, I think that's more of an exception. Typically, you learn and get signals throughout the development process. As you discover, as you test different options, as you iterate, you're going to gradually come to a picture of whether the product is a hit or not. In the vast majority of cases, it's over a period of time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

No, I think that's more of an exception. Typically, you learn and get signals throughout the development process. As you discover, as you test different options, as you iterate, you're going to gradually come to a picture of whether the product is a hit or not. In the vast majority of cases, it's over a period of time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

No, I think that's more of an exception. Typically, you learn and get signals throughout the development process. As you discover, as you test different options, as you iterate, you're going to gradually come to a picture of whether the product is a hit or not. In the vast majority of cases, it's over a period of time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Ideally, you start thinking about and discovering your second product one to two years before you need to have results in the market because it takes time to build a successful product. And so if you are a company with just one product and you hit product market fit and you're growing, it's all going great.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Ideally, you start thinking about and discovering your second product one to two years before you need to have results in the market because it takes time to build a successful product. And so if you are a company with just one product and you hit product market fit and you're growing, it's all going great.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Ideally, you start thinking about and discovering your second product one to two years before you need to have results in the market because it takes time to build a successful product. And so if you are a company with just one product and you hit product market fit and you're growing, it's all going great.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

That's the time where you start thinking about, okay, when should I introduce the next product? And if it's in another year or two, you start at that point.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

That's the time where you start thinking about, okay, when should I introduce the next product? And if it's in another year or two, you start at that point.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

That's the time where you start thinking about, okay, when should I introduce the next product? And if it's in another year or two, you start at that point.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Like you said, there are actually really simple playbook. There are three categories, like you said. There is new products that you can be spending your capacity on. And as part of that, I would include any big bets ideas, right? There's the existing products and improving their quality, either optimizations or step change improvements.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Like you said, there are actually really simple playbook. There are three categories, like you said. There is new products that you can be spending your capacity on. And as part of that, I would include any big bets ideas, right? There's the existing products and improving their quality, either optimizations or step change improvements.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Like you said, there are actually really simple playbook. There are three categories, like you said. There is new products that you can be spending your capacity on. And as part of that, I would include any big bets ideas, right? There's the existing products and improving their quality, either optimizations or step change improvements.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

And then there is, if you have existing products already, your company with multiple products already, There's obviously maintenance of those products, also known as KTLO, and internal productivity. Those are the three major categories of investment. If you are a company that has already multiple product lines and you have hundreds of millions in revenue,