Noah Weiss
Noah Weiss is Chief Product Officer at Slack, where he leads all aspects of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business, the team that launched huddles and clips, and the search and machine-learning teams. Prior to Slack, Noah served as SVP of Product at Foursquare. He started his career at Google, leading the structured data search team and working on display ads.
Career (separate track) Skills
Accelerating your professional skills often requires trading some individual agency for the opportunity to work under a CEO who is a master of your discipline.
"I would say to folks in general, if you're joining company and the CEO does the role that is your functional area of expertise, it's probably the area where you'll learn the most because they're hopef..."
Overlay: Building AI Products Skills
Avoid the trap of adding generic AI features by identifying specific customer 'superpowers' and giving dedicated teams the space to prototype them independently.
"I think in the AI space, we're trying to hear from customers, what do you wish Slack could do if it had these new superpowers? Let's incubate a couple teams or prototype, give them space to run and pi..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
Reignite growth by prioritizing monetization and B2B models, which provide a faster and more incremental signal for product-market fit than aggregate reach models.
"I think the feedback to you get from our people willing to pay for the product that you're building is so much faster than can I build a large-scale consumer business and when they hope to have enough..."