Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
Lenny and Friends Summit 2024 talk in which Scott Belsky, who founded Behance and later oversaw Adobe's Creative Cloud, shares insights for making and leading products people love. He describes Behance as a platform of 56 million creatives and his years at Adobe, then lists lenses he calls seeing the Matrix as a product leader. He says data is a compass, not a map, that new products should optimize for the problems you want to have, and that shallow value should come before deep value. He says Behance improved when the team killed features such as groups and tip exchange, and describes a product life cycle where users flock to simple products, then power user features add complexity. He says early customers are lazy, vain and selfish, so onboarding should show rather than explain. The description says the talk was recorded live in San Francisco on October 24. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover roughly the first 14 minutes of the 27 minute talk, so later insights and the human thread at the end are not summarized. All claims are the speaker's own and are not independently checked. Nothing here is legal, financial or medical advice.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Lenny and Friends Summit 2024 talk in which Scott Belsky, who founded Behance and later oversaw Adobe's Creative Cloud, shares insights for making and leading products people love. He describes Behance as a platform of 56 million creatives and his years at Adobe, then lists lenses he calls seeing the Matrix as a product leader. He says data is a compass, not a map, that new products should optimize for the problems you want to have, and that shallow value should come before deep value. He says Behance improved when the team killed features such as groups and tip exchange, and describes a product life cycle where users flock to simple products, then power user features add complexity. He says early customers are lazy, vain and selfish, so onboarding should show rather than explain. The description says the talk was recorded live in San Francisco on October 24. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover roughly the first 14 minutes of the 27 minute talk, so later insights and the human thread at the end are not summarized. All claims are the speaker's own and are not independently checked. Nothing here is legal, financial or medical advice.