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Big Bets

How product leaders at big and small orgs take big bets

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Booking.com packages with Can Ulker

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them. For this one, I chatted to Can Ulker, a former product manager at Booking.com, about a bet they took on building a product to offer package holidays. Founded in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch startup to one of the world’s leading digital travel companies,…

Uber Money with Ebi Atawodi (Big Bets 9)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them.

Cortana with Sandeep Paruchuri (Big Bets 8)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them. For this one, I chatted to Sandeep Paruchuri, a colleague from WhatsApp and a former PM at Microsoft, about Microsoft’s big bet on an AI assistant called Cortana.

Travelex with Dave Wascha (Big Bets 7)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them. For this one, I chatted to Dave Wascha about bets at Travelex, where he was the Global Product and Technology Director between 2014 and 2016.

Bulb with Geraldine de Boisse (Big Bets 6)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them.

Wise (formerly TransferWise) multi-currency account with Nilan Peiris (Big Bets 5)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them.

FutureLearn with Matt Walton (Big Bets 4)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them. For this one, I caught up with Matt Walton, the former CPO of FutureLearn, an edtech startup that began life as a big bet by the Open University.

Revolut with Rishi Stocker (Big Bets 3)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them. For this one, I chatted to Rishi, who was employee number 16 at Revolut, about big bets the company has taken - from crypto-trading to credit, insurance to rewards. Revolut was founded in 2015 as a way to make money transfers and spend money abroad, but today they describe themselves as…

Deliveroo Plus with Rob Cooper (Big Bets 2)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them.

Tom Loosemore and BBC iPlayer (Big Bets 1)

This is a newsletter about big bets, explored through conversations with the product leaders who worked on them.

Introducing Big Bets, a newsletter about building new products

Companies that are past the early start-up phase have - almost by definition - proved they can do one thing well.