Getting to Product/Market Fit and Building Effective Product Teams (with Harpal Singh, Product Consultant & Interim CPO)

An interview with Harpal Singh. Harpal is an award-winning product consultant and interim CPO with long experience working with a variety of startups and helping them set up effective product teams and achieving Product/Market Fit. We talk about his journey and specifically:

• The benefits of being a consultant and how it's helped him to be a better leader
• His passion for Product/Market Fit and why he wrote a playbook on it
• His ambitions for the book and how it's helped him challenge his assumptions
• What Product/Market Fit really means, why it's not just about MVPs, and the concept of a "Hair On Fire" problem
• The importance of Marketing when finding Product/Market Fit and not being led solely by technology
• The variability of the Product Manager role between companies & the importance of a career plan
• The perils of poor LinkedIn content