Category: Products

The Product Probe: Is Zoom fighting a losing battle? Zoom – the product that propelled a business to be worth $160B in a $7B market, all because the product ‘just worked.’ It actually wasn’t that long ago that Skype was the video conferencing tool of choice, and you were lucky if 50% of the conversation…

The Product Probe: Notion This was written in 2020. I remember showing my wife Notion the first time. All I received was a dismissive response that sounded much better sung by Julian Casablancas – ‘is this it?’ Julian Casablancas doing his work. It really only takes 5 minutes to dive deeper before understanding this has…

The Product Probe: Klaviyo This was written in 2020. Are you one of the people that thinks email marketing doesn’t work? If you’re in e-commerce, you would’ve heard of Klaviyo. If you’re not, chances are you haven’t. Klaviyo is one of the most powerful email marketing (and more) tools in the space, and has attracted…

The Product Probe: Strava Given how quickly tech products can move, I believe it’s worth pointing out when this was looked at. It was in 2020. Strava is an app that you rarely hear about until your 30s, then it’s the only thing you hear about. It’s addictive, but you don’t have to feel guilty…