This document summarizes a presentation by Ayush Agarwal on product management. The presentation debunks common product management truisms like "MVP", "fail fast", and "be data driven". It argues companies should focus on building a viable product, driving critical metrics, and winning fast instead of failing. The document promotes Agarwal's product management training courses and includes his contact information.

1. The Distinction of Ideology in Product
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8. Tonight’s Speaker
Ayush Agarwal

9. Product Truisms
Debunked
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10. All views and ideas shared are my own personal views
and ideas, and in no way represent my current or past
employers in any manner whatsoever.
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11. MVP
Fail fast
Be data driven
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12. MVP
Fail fast
Be data driven
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13. Featuritis
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15. Simple
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16. MVP
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17. Managing Friend Lists
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18. “I want to organize my
friends in groups so that I
can send the right message
to the right people”
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19. Minimum Viable Product
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21. “I want to organize my
friends in groups so that I
can send the right message
to the right people… and I
don’t want to spend all my
time organizing my friends”
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26. Minimum Viable Product
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27. MVP
Fail fast
Be data driven
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29. Have you failed?
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30. Have you failed?
Are you giving up?
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31. How fast is fast?
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32. How fast is fast?
How about we give this
another month?
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33. Amazon Fire Phone
Launched
July 2014

34. Amazon Fire Phone
Launched
July 2014
Killed
Aug 2015

35. There are 100s of ways to fail

36. Your objective is to win
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37. Win fast
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38. MVP
Fail Win fast
Be data driven
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39. Retail dot com

40. Revenue
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Price
Selection

41. Every 100ms of
latency costs
Amazon 1% in
sales

42. 500ms delay
can cause a
20% drop in
traffic

43. MVP
Fail Win fast
Be data driven
Drive Critical Controllable metrics
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44. Viable Product
Drive Critical Controllable metrics
Win fast
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45. Thanks!
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