public
Non-Code Moats
(lifted from a CPO coaching call this week)
We're not there yet, but may be close to the…
Richard Mironov
Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
412 posts
•
public
public
MONEY STORIES
Communicating the Value of Product Work
DON’T BRING A BACKLOG TO A GUNFIGHT!
Product managers talk about features. Executives…
public
Earning Our Keep
(this is an excerpt from my upcoming book on Money Stories)
As CPOs or product leaders, we often have conversations with CEOs about Return On Investment, which come in two wildly different contexts.…
public
Money Stories @ Productized (video)
Video of my 17 Oct 25 talk at PRODUCTIZED Lisbon: "business cases are stories about money"
I unpacked…
public
The Challenge Of Selling Care & Feeding Investments to Money-Side Executives
I've been writing and speaking and workshopping a lot about Money Stories (here, here, here): the very simple…
public
Practicing the Language of Money (Video)
This talk is from Product Management Festival in Zurich (November 2025), part of a product-meets-finance track. A version of my…
public
Some Missing AI Money Stories
I was part of a business-meets-product track at PMF Zurich last week with Simonetta Batteiger, Felicity "Flick" Harding…
public
Podcast: The Real Cost of AI, Valuations, Bottlenecks and Business Cases
I joined Ben Maynard and Barbara Fazekas for a rapid-fire live podcast!
LISTEN HERE (18 minutes)
Lifting their description…
Another…
public
Answering Next Year's Revenue Growth Question...
Marc Baselga captured part of discussion I had last week with a Supra leadership group, so copying his transcript/my…
public
A Historical Take on the AI Boom
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - possibly Mark Twain
Last week, as part of…
public
Product Mastery Podcast: Building Influence as a Product Leader
Dr. Chad McAllister brought me onto his long-running podcast to talk about top challenges for product leaders and their broader…
public
Are Your Executives Really Interested In The Craft Of Product Management? (discussion)
I joined Shardul Mehta for a live chat on 18 Sept, where we unpacked a core PM assumption: are our…