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Mike Hudack

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822 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

I think great PMs combine deep intuition about people and markets with great product taste, great design taste. They don't need to be great designers, but they need to understand it and be able to tell you, oh, that's good, that's bad. Together with

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

a deep understanding of engineering, or at least the ability to operate with engineers and have respect, together with an understanding of the company's context and what it needs to accomplish. Does it need to grow? Does it need to be profitable? Does it need profitable growth? All of these things. And if you don't have all of those things, I think it's very hard to be a good engineer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

a deep understanding of engineering, or at least the ability to operate with engineers and have respect, together with an understanding of the company's context and what it needs to accomplish. Does it need to grow? Does it need to be profitable? Does it need profitable growth? All of these things. And if you don't have all of those things, I think it's very hard to be a good engineer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

a deep understanding of engineering, or at least the ability to operate with engineers and have respect, together with an understanding of the company's context and what it needs to accomplish. Does it need to grow? Does it need to be profitable? Does it need profitable growth? All of these things. And if you don't have all of those things, I think it's very hard to be a good engineer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And I think the thing that is not always obvious is just deep intellectual honesty. You need somebody who is willing to say from the first instance, I don't know the answer to that. I'm gonna go figure it out. When were you not intellectually honest with yourself? Many times, you know, it's a failure mode you can fall into when you are in love with the thing that you are building or have built.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And I think the thing that is not always obvious is just deep intellectual honesty. You need somebody who is willing to say from the first instance, I don't know the answer to that. I'm gonna go figure it out. When were you not intellectually honest with yourself? Many times, you know, it's a failure mode you can fall into when you are in love with the thing that you are building or have built.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

And I think the thing that is not always obvious is just deep intellectual honesty. You need somebody who is willing to say from the first instance, I don't know the answer to that. I'm gonna go figure it out. When were you not intellectually honest with yourself? Many times, you know, it's a failure mode you can fall into when you are in love with the thing that you are building or have built.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

You really, truly believe in it deep down. And you look at the data and you say to yourself, oh, well, just one more iteration. I just got this wrong. Oh, I got to do this or that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

You really, truly believe in it deep down. And you look at the data and you say to yourself, oh, well, just one more iteration. I just got this wrong. Oh, I got to do this or that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

You really, truly believe in it deep down. And you look at the data and you say to yourself, oh, well, just one more iteration. I just got this wrong. Oh, I got to do this or that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

this thing is is wrong i think it's a very easy thing to do and i i've done it many times and you have to kind of like catch yourself and and stop yourself final one what recent company product strategy have you been most impressed by and why then i i continue to be very impressed by monzo's execution of monzo's strategy i think it's i think it's going to go very well um what specifically about monzo's new product over the last 12 months has made you so impressed

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

this thing is is wrong i think it's a very easy thing to do and i i've done it many times and you have to kind of like catch yourself and and stop yourself final one what recent company product strategy have you been most impressed by and why then i i continue to be very impressed by monzo's execution of monzo's strategy i think it's i think it's going to go very well um what specifically about monzo's new product over the last 12 months has made you so impressed

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

this thing is is wrong i think it's a very easy thing to do and i i've done it many times and you have to kind of like catch yourself and and stop yourself final one what recent company product strategy have you been most impressed by and why then i i continue to be very impressed by monzo's execution of monzo's strategy i think it's i think it's going to go very well um what specifically about monzo's new product over the last 12 months has made you so impressed

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i like the i like the investment product i like the family product which is coming out so kid accounts i think is going to help monzo move up demographically i think all of these products have been very carefully thought out to kind of extend the demographic reach of the platform in meaningful ways which i think is very important and i think there's a bunch of stuff coming soon which is also going to be very important and very good

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i like the i like the investment product i like the family product which is coming out so kid accounts i think is going to help monzo move up demographically i think all of these products have been very carefully thought out to kind of extend the demographic reach of the platform in meaningful ways which i think is very important and i think there's a bunch of stuff coming soon which is also going to be very important and very good

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

i like the i like the investment product i like the family product which is coming out so kid accounts i think is going to help monzo move up demographically i think all of these products have been very carefully thought out to kind of extend the demographic reach of the platform in meaningful ways which i think is very important and i think there's a bunch of stuff coming soon which is also going to be very important and very good

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

I really appreciate all of the things that are happening right now. I don't really know how to put this, but all the experimentation that's happening with AI at the moment and LLMs, I think that like Claude and ChatGPT and all these things, there's just something very interesting going on there. And you can see the minds working behind the scenes. I don't know how it's going to end up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

I really appreciate all of the things that are happening right now. I don't really know how to put this, but all the experimentation that's happening with AI at the moment and LLMs, I think that like Claude and ChatGPT and all these things, there's just something very interesting going on there. And you can see the minds working behind the scenes. I don't know how it's going to end up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

I really appreciate all of the things that are happening right now. I don't really know how to put this, but all the experimentation that's happening with AI at the moment and LLMs, I think that like Claude and ChatGPT and all these things, there's just something very interesting going on there. And you can see the minds working behind the scenes. I don't know how it's going to end up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

I think that these things go in cycles where, you know, obviously there's a hype cycle. People are really excited about these things. I think there's going to be a trough. But then we'll get to that, the plateau of whatever.