Product-led vs Sales-led Growth with Alejandro Carrillo, Senior Product Manager at Oyster

Episode notes

A big shoutout to all product leaders. Welcome to the Product Leaders Podcast by Fireart with your hosts, Dima Venglinski and Tolik Nguyen. Every episode is a deep dive into different aspects of product leadership to enhance the end-user experience. In this episode, Dima is joined by Alejandro Carrillo , Senior Product Manager at Oyster . Alejandro shares his insights on a wide range of topics, including the importance of customer-led growth, intuitive vs structured decision-making, and the current environment for startups. Topics we discuss: Intuitive vs Structured decision making Lessons learned from working at a mission-led company Product-led vs customer-led growth, which should you adopt? The current environment for startups Hot Takes and Key Highlights: Intuitive vs Structured Decision Making Let’s say you’re thinking about solving a problem for your customers. The intuitive way would be to think of the solution that would solve the problem and then build your product accordingly. The structured way to solve the same problem is to go through a discovery process and collect and analyze data to arrive at a solution.

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