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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. The year before, political bloggers at Instapundit and Talking Points Memo had shaken up American politics when they managed to intensify attention on a story about Trent Lott , forcing his resignation as the minority leader in the U.S.

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Product Management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A couple of years ago, Pete Skomoroch, Roger Magoulas, and I talked about the problems of being a product manager for an AI product. Product Management for AI. What you need to know about product management for AI Practical Skills for the AI Product Manager Bringing an AI Product to Market.

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI products.

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AI Product Management After Deployment

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The field of AI product management continues to gain momentum. As the AI product management role advances in maturity, more and more information and advice has become available. One area that has received less attention is the role of an AI product manager after the product is deployed.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Product managers for AI need to lead that rethinking.

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Involvement and impact of AI in Product management: interview with Rutger de Wijs

Xebia

Product Management Consultant Rutger de Wijs shares his view on why and how AI can be leveraged by Product Managers to increase the value of their products. At the beginning of my career (in the 2010s), I worked at an advertising tech startup as a BI Manager. Earlier I mentioned Spotify.

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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief

TechCrunch

The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news summary app that aimed to tackle many of the problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias and algorithms that promoted engagement over news accuracy. Twitter declined to share deal terms.

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