Don’t Discount Having A Great User Research - Ahmad Kadhim, TimeSaved

Product Innovation Series with Aram Melkoumov

About Ahmad
Ahmad Kadhim is a software product leader who’s been in tech for close to 10 years now, mostly in hybrid roles at early-stage startups. He has also been a veteran of three other marketplace startups like AquaMobile, #paid and 500px.Being cross-disciplinary played to his strengths as a zoom-in-zoom-out thinker.

SHOW NOTES
[01:10] Intro
[01:30] Being A Product Leader Working Closely With Sales Teams
[02:50] Collaborating
[03:25] Digital Transformation
[04:00] Product Leader Next Steps
[06:50] First Customer Success
[10:15] Overcoming Pitfalls
[13:20] Rushing To Build Something
[14:14] Wake Up Call Moments
[17:35] Saying No To Feature Requests
[18:37] Spending Your Gifted 5 Hours
[19:35] Controversial Views
[21:09] Community Manager vs Product Marketer
[22:05] Personal Questions
[24:57] Outro

QUOTES:
“Am I in the right direction at all or is this not landing?”
“Eventually, we started creating some systems, we started kind of teaching each other as much as we could about our disciplines so we could collaborate more effectively that way.”
“Be patient with us, give us feedback.”
“All the successful products I think we’ve worked on are ones where the product leaders spend most of their time talking and listening to the customers.”

Connect with Ahmad
Website: https://ahmadkadhim.com
Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ahmadkadhim
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahmadkadhim/

OTHER LINKS FROM THIS PODCAST:
https://aquamobileswim.com
https://hashtagpaid.com
https://500px.com
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