Don’t Discount Having A Great User Research - Ahmad Kadhim, TimeSaved

<p><strong>About Ahmad</strong><br>Ahmad Kadhim is a software product leader who’s been in tech for close to 10 years now, mostly in hybrid roles at early-stage startups. He has also been a veteran of three other marketplace startups like AquaMobile, #paid and 500px.Being cross-disciplinary played to his strengths as a zoom-in-zoom-out thinker. </p><p><strong>SHOW NOTES</strong><br>[01:10] Intro<br>[01:30] Being A Product Leader Working Closely With Sales Teams<br>[02:50] Collaborating<br>[03:25] Digital Transformation<br>[04:00] Product Leader Next Steps<br>[06:50] First Customer Success<br>[10:15] Overcoming Pitfalls<br>[13:20] Rushing To Build Something<br>[14:14] Wake Up Call Moments<br>[17:35] Saying No To Feature Requests<br>[18:37] Spending Your Gifted 5 Hours<br>[19:35] Controversial Views<br>[21:09] Community Manager vs Product Marketer<br>[22:05] Personal Questions<br>[24:57] Outro</p><p><strong>QUOTES:</strong><br>“Am I in the right direction at all or is this not landing?”  <br>“Eventually, we started creating some systems, we started kind of teaching each other as much as we could about our disciplines so we could collaborate more effectively that way.” <br>“Be patient with us, give us feedback.”<br>“All the successful products I think we’ve worked on are ones where the product leaders spend most of their time talking and listening to the customers.” </p><p><strong>Connect with Ahmad</strong><br>Website: https://ahmadkadhim.com<br>Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ahmadkadhim<br>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahmadkadhim/</p><p><strong>OTHER LINKS FROM THIS PODCAST:</strong><br>https://aquamobileswim.com<br>https://hashtagpaid.com<br>https://500px.com<br>Show note editor: www.fiverr.com/mickperry</p><p><strong>Work with Crowdlinker: </strong><br>https://www.crowdlinker.com/contact </p>