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Maria Angelidou

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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 we have a Slack chat and we post about every review, the materials, the recording, the action items, the ETAs, like everything is documented. And then the team can pull whatever information they want.

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

We have kind of like four different types in my current organization.

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

We have kind of like four different types in my current organization.

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

We have kind of like four different types in my current organization.

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

So there could be a strategy review. So the strategy review is where we go deep on what is the problem that we're trying to solve? Why is it important? We talk about product opportunity, we talk about business case, whatever it is. but it's all about just like the what, if you will. The second one is roadmap review. This is like an execution plan for whatever problem you're trying to solve.

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

So there could be a strategy review. So the strategy review is where we go deep on what is the problem that we're trying to solve? Why is it important? We talk about product opportunity, we talk about business case, whatever it is. but it's all about just like the what, if you will. The second one is roadmap review. This is like an execution plan for whatever problem you're trying to solve.

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

So there could be a strategy review. So the strategy review is where we go deep on what is the problem that we're trying to solve? Why is it important? We talk about product opportunity, we talk about business case, whatever it is. but it's all about just like the what, if you will. The second one is roadmap review. This is like an execution plan for whatever problem you're trying to solve.

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

It talks about the sequencing, the milestones, the exact goals that the team is going to take. It's basically the plan to get there, so it's the how. We have a launch review. So a launch review is before the launch of any product, we look at all of the things that need to come together to have a successful launch.

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

It talks about the sequencing, the milestones, the exact goals that the team is going to take. It's basically the plan to get there, so it's the how. We have a launch review. So a launch review is before the launch of any product, we look at all of the things that need to come together to have a successful launch.

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

It talks about the sequencing, the milestones, the exact goals that the team is going to take. It's basically the plan to get there, so it's the how. We have a launch review. So a launch review is before the launch of any product, we look at all of the things that need to come together to have a successful launch.

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 the same review, we look at experience and we pressure test it against the quality bar that we have. And then the last type is business review. So we look at the financial performance of the product and all of the business levers for that product to do well or not well, what we need to change, what we need to pay attention to. So those are the four types.

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 the same review, we look at experience and we pressure test it against the quality bar that we have. And then the last type is business review. So we look at the financial performance of the product and all of the business levers for that product to do well or not well, what we need to change, what we need to pay attention to. So those are the four types.

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 the same review, we look at experience and we pressure test it against the quality bar that we have. And then the last type is business review. So we look at the financial performance of the product and all of the business levers for that product to do well or not well, what we need to change, what we need to pay attention to. So those are the four types.

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

Now, you asked about when product reviews don't go well. And I think one of the reasons is when the team doesn't know what are the most important questions that we need to answer. And you can catch that in the pre-read. So we ask that the pre-read is sent at least 24 hours in advance.

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

Now, you asked about when product reviews don't go well. And I think one of the reasons is when the team doesn't know what are the most important questions that we need to answer. And you can catch that in the pre-read. So we ask that the pre-read is sent at least 24 hours in advance.

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

Now, you asked about when product reviews don't go well. And I think one of the reasons is when the team doesn't know what are the most important questions that we need to answer. And you can catch that in the pre-read. So we ask that the pre-read is sent at least 24 hours in advance.

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

Well, the pre-read goes over the problem that we're trying to solve and all the different components that you need to discuss as part of the review type.

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

Well, the pre-read goes over the problem that we're trying to solve and all the different components that you need to discuss as part of the review type.

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

Well, the pre-read goes over the problem that we're trying to solve and all the different components that you need to discuss as part of the review type.

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

It's a Google Doc that everyone is expected to read before the review and add any comments or thoughts in that document so that we can have a productive discussion.