Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Product Management
As product managers progress in their careers, they often struggle with imposter syndrome. How to overcome this limitation, and build towards success, requires self-awareness, patience, and equal doses of generosity and empathy. Here’s how.
Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie
Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.
When to Broaden Product Offerings at Early Stage Companies
A quick guide to the five instances when leaders of an early stage company should expand their product offerings.
Luther Cale— Working to make healthcare safer, remote from Ecuador
What's it like raising a daughter in Ecuador? What's a good way to work remotely from another country? How do you build a new product in healthcare? These are some of the questions we ask Luther Cale, Vice President of Clinical Programs at Healthstream.
Chris Bradle — The courage to be yourself
Chris Bradle, Vice President of Product for Aiwyn, a start-up in Charlotte NC that helps accounting firms automate their particles and become more profitable, talks with Tom about long distance running, being yourself in business, and how differentiation comes from authenticity.
Five Questions to Ask to Create a Product People Will Love: A Product Framework
What five questions should you ask yourself before creating a new product? And how can you answer these questions with a high degree of authority? Watch this video to learn more about the Fortune's Path Product Framework.
Amin Haidar: Managing Product Managers
Amin Haidar, Director of Product Management at Asurion, talks about how he mentors and manages project managers and how Asurion decides what software development to prioritize and how to hold teams accountable. This one may be our best yet for practical advice about how to be and lead great product managers.
Product Management: Software Development Shop FortyAU Develops its PM Chops
Even the most talented developers in the world need to practice product management to build something great. That’s why FortyAU turned to Fortune’s Path to develop their internal product management competency.
Walter Hindman: Junkdrop and Charity for Profit
How many of us have founded a profitable $800k business by the time we’re 26? Not many, but Walter Hindman has.
The company Walter founded, Junkdrop Nashville, connects those with too much with those with not enough. Learn why Walter never wants to sell anything he collects, why ecologically sensitive disposal is so important to his business, and what he loves most about being a leader.
Teja Yenamandra: How You Know it's Time to Raise Money
Why would you take on investors when you already have a profitable business you had boot strapped yourself? Is the advice you get from investors as important as the money? Are remote software teams as popular as they were during COVID? Teja Yenamandra, CEO and co-founder of Gun.io, a platform for matching tech talent with the best organizations, tackles all of these questions in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.