Do you remember your teenage years? Young startups that have secured initial customers and face fast growth go through a similar stage. They need to change and mature to take advantage of the opportunity, but those changes can be difficult. Deriving lessons from experience leading product teams in young, and in established B2B companies, this session discusses how product strategy has to evolve as the number of customers and the product complexity increase.
Whether you are an individual product manager or are running a team, understanding why and how your company has to evolve as it grows will make you more effective and successful.

Main takeaways:
- Successfully scaling a product and a business is different than securing initial product market-fit
- Strategies that help startups succeed in the early stage can become obstacles in later stages
- Product Management plays a key role in driving the necessary changes

Meet the Speaker: Laura Marino

A Senior Product Executive with extensive experience in Product Management, M&A analysis, and definition of corporate strategies, Laura is passionate about scaling product organizations.

Laura is currently SVP of Product at Lever, a 200-person VC-backed company that is modernizing the way organizations nurture and recruit talent. In her role, she is responsible for Product Management, design, and product operations. Previously, Laura has built and led product teams in small and large organizations including SAP Labs, Nuance, speech recognition, Tellme Networks - Microsoft subsidiary, speech automation, Intapp, software for the legal industry, and more recently Topia, global mobility.

In addition to being a regular guest speaker at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Laura is a member of the extended teaching team in the Stanford Management Science and Engineering Department, lecturing on entrepreneurship and product management. She has also been a guest lecturer at UC Santa Barbara, and Los Andes University, in Bogota, and a speaker at the Stage-Gate Innovation conference.

A supporter of women and diversity, Laura serves on the board of Leading Women in Technology a non-profit dedicated to promoting women leadership.
Laura earned two Master of Science degrees from Stanford University where she was the recipient of the "Outstanding Academic Performance at the Graduate Level" award.

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