Archive - Rubik's Cube

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May 10 •

Babis Makrynikolas

April 2025

What DoorDash got right and most others missed

Or how to get from delivering macaroons to building a logistics company worth $70B

Apr 5 •

Babis Makrynikolas

March 2025

The new role of PM in the age of AI

The real competitive advantage lies in deciding what to build

Mar 20 •

Babis Makrynikolas

November 2023

The only thing that matters and the pursuit of single-threaded leadership

How teams can focus on executing on their important goals, while organizations can continue to innovate and pursue several initiatives at a time

Nov 24, 2023 •

Babis Makrynikolas

November 2022

The Nest screwdriver

Raising the bar on customer obsession

Nov 4, 2022 •

Babis Makrynikolas

September 2022

On Chesterton’s fences and dogs that don’t bark

A few weeks ago we were looking into a bug and while trying to find the root cause, we went down the rabbit hole of some seemingly random configurations…

Sep 3, 2022 •

Babis Makrynikolas

July 2022

How to align coroprate and product strategy

How to align corporate and product strategy was one of the questions I never asked during my time at Amazon.

Jul 29, 2022 •

Babis Makrynikolas

March 2022

How to assess Product Managers

My most recent post on how to hire your first PM hopefully helped some teams hiring PMs for the first time.

Mar 25, 2022 •

Babis Makrynikolas

January 2022

How to hire the first product manager for your startup

A common approach on what to write about, is something that people ask you often enough.

Jan 15, 2022 •

Babis Makrynikolas

June 2021

Product management lessons from Amazon’s success

Back in 2004, technology was much different than it is today.

Jun 5, 2021 •

Babis Makrynikolas

April 2021

An unconventional path to innovation

From monoliths to microservices Back in the day, most applications were built based on a monolithic architecture. Monolithic - in Greek meaning “one…

Apr 24, 2021 •

Babis Makrynikolas

March 2021

The most underappreciated skill in business

Mar 12, 2021 •

Babis Makrynikolas

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