Outside of work
🏔️ Outdoors & adventure
Surfing, split boarding, camping, sailing
🎾 Sports
Wakeboarding + anything watersports, tennis, table tennis
🧪 Experimenting
Strange drinks, cooking, sourdough, homebrew, diy
My product philosophy
Proposition #1
Useful products don’t necessarily get used.
Most businesses haemorrhage users through their product experience.
You need to build something
that people actually care about, and then also nudge them to actually do something with your product.
This
necessitates finding strong product-market fit and deeply understanding your user psychology.
Proposition #2
Product is part art, part science.
Startups often make the mistake of either completely basing their product on their own instinct OR
copying what they see more successful startups doing.
But in order to win you need a balance of
both - strong strategy, creative experimentation and understanding time-proven underlying drivers of
success.
Proposition #3
We are at an inflection point in the way successful companies are built.
New technology (especially AI) is lowering the time to build and barriers to entry to create valuable
products.
This results in increased competition, meaning startups are being forced to focus on
smaller and smaller niches in order to carve out their own sustainable piece of the market.
Proposition #4
There's no such thing as a 100% responsible product.
It's important for every product to regularly account for its direct impacts, both positive and negative
- and then extrapolate to potential second order impacts, third order impacts and so on.
