Talks

The Open Letter: How would you build it

I joined Renier and Bobby on The Open Letter podcast where we chatted about finding Product Market Fit, Building for Africa, Corporate sales, innovation, and why I joined OkHi.
15 March 2024

ZAPD: 10 Principles of Great Product teams

Had a lot of fun chatting to the South African Product Design Community (ZAPD) where we unpack a framework on how to use an evaluation of your teams strengths to identify tools/frameworks/methodologies to improve. (Read my blog post on this)
June 26 2023.

Enyata: Business fundamentals that investors love

I did a talk for the Enyata community on what investors look for when making an investment decision as well as how to build a company that delivers on that. I distilled it into this post on How Investors evaluate startups.   24 March 2023

Hue Seth Show: Product Development & Customer Validation

Hue and I had a chat about how to validate an idea as well as the importance of customer discovery and validation.  We cover interviewing techniques, startup risks & idea validation. 27 Aug 2022

MasterCast: Product Master

Fun interview by MasterCast to get my thoughts on Product. I cover topics such as: Product the way vs product the thing, why picking tools is like learning to dance, principles over frameworks, and why I haven't read the Lean Startup.  
09 January 2022

Product Tank Hamburg

In this session Annu Augustine and I chat to Product Tank Hamburg about How startups in Africa are booming (and the products that power them). 11 November 2021 

Institute of Product Leadership

In collaboration with Annu Augustine, I did a talk for the Institute of Product Leadership in India on Owning your product management journey in growing a PM career. 21 October 2021 

Cape Town PM Meetup

I did a talk the Cape Town Product Managers Meetup on:
Why being Product-led is a competitive edge... and how anyone can do it.   20 October 2021 

Interview on Startup Grind

David and I were hosted by Startup Grind to chat about our work with the Lean Iterator. We cover a bit of our back-story's and how we developed the process. 

Lean Iterator sessions

We created 6 hours worth of video content as part of the workshops that we delivered for the Lean Iterator. This is the first episode - the rest can be found on the youtube playlist.

We cover the various methods of idea and business validation as well as the how and why to use the most common Lean Startup tools.