Ankit Jain @ankitjain

Product leader (ex- VP Products @ Hopin, Atlassian, Practo), ex-Pvt Equity ~ I enjoy bringing clarity & delivering value in ambiguous situations. linkedin.com/in/ankitja/ Bangalore Joined March 2007

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

11 hours ago

If building products is similar to creating movies, then why can't the best product launches be similar to the best-in-class movie trailers? The most-loved movie trailers are those that reveal bare minimum about the movie, don't give away the plot & pique audience's curiosity.

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

2 days ago

"A workflow wrapper over 3rd party LLMs" SaaS products will see their business models, unit economics and valuation principles all get reset. At scale, the Gross Margins will go out of range of the usual SaaS Gross Margins (70-90%). And, even the Operating Margins may compress…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

2 days ago

Claude Artifact looks like a new avatar of the Facebook Platform (remember all the Zynga games?) with a twist in the monetization strategy. Early days. The equivalent of Facebook's social graph of end-user is Claude's AI models and license keys of end-user

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

3 days ago

Musing: Is installing Ad Blockers equivalent of Piracy?

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

3 days ago

For teams facing complex problems that don't have an overnight solution... First job is to prevent digging a deeper hole.... Second job is to increase the runway available to solve the problem... Third job finally is to break down the problem into manageable components and…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

5 days ago

Musing: A paradox of decluttering is that it reveals structural anomalies previously hidden behind the clutter occupying the space. One may suddenly realise that, in comparison, there is a more fundamental (and onerous) problem at hand than the simple task of decluttering.

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

6 days ago

Musing: How many Product teams embark on investments in bold new PMF areas - not primarily because they have validated the growth potential - but because their current core business has become too mundane and standardised after a solid PMF landing that happened some years ago?

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

7 days ago

An inadvertent behaviour trap for leaders is "genuine in critical feedback, mechanical in appreciation". Lofty achievement ideals and a very high bar of excellence are one set of reasons to push this behaviour. The other set of reasons goes much deeper into the psychological…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

a week ago

Musing: For multiple decades now, professional software development has largely been a team sport. Big teams or small teams - but you have PMs, Designers, Developers, Data Scientists, etc coming together to create a unique product offering for the world. Each role dependent…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

a week ago

When I was VP Product at Practo (leading their B2C HealthTech products), the ICP for several of our offerings was "the Caregiver persona". In the Indian context, it usually meant someone aged 28-55, who took up the primary role of being the health caregiver of kids,…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

a week ago

Traits of teams that can take charge of any dynamic situation: 1. Ability to take on new & big opportunities that may seem like challenges to others --> because the team is confident in their problem-solving skills to bring structure to nebulous ideas 2. Ability to intuitively…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

a week ago

Tool notifications - meant for alerting the user about important info - have become a blind spot. I have at least 20+ Enterprise work tool notifications for which a Gmail filter exists. 100s of unreads in each. And these are not even the other set of filters for subscription to…

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

a week ago

Today was my first "Father-Son powering through their sick leaves while Mom was out of town" moment. 🤒 Nothing builds bonds stronger than fighting in the trenches together and sharing difficult times. Be it nations... Or colleagues... Or friends... Or family.

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Ankit Jain @ankitjain

2 weeks ago

In "Operations Management ", cycle time and setup time are 101 concepts. However, setup time is hardly discussed even in high functioning teams. When Productivity increase is the aim, be careful that you are not inadvertently increasing setup time while process re-engineering.…