An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)

Every single day. Every single time somebody is pushing your code to production and and you're releasing a feature or an enhancement. you are making the product better or you're making the product worse, but the products never remain the same. And so with every release that your competitor is making and every release that you're making, You're either make you know, making chess points, moves against them, positive points, or or or you're going negative. And I think like that framework It actually drives an insane amount of clarity in terms of

what you're doing and what the impact is going to be Welcome to Lenny's Podcast, where I interview world class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hardware experiences building and growing today's most successful products. Today my guest is Varun Parmer. Maroon is Chief Product Officer Miro. And prior to Miro, he was senior vice president and chief product officer at Box. As I share with Varun at the start of our chat.

I've always been really curious about the product culture at Miro, partly because everyone I've ever met for Miro has been super interesting and super smart. And partly because they've been able to grow as a business and a product in an incredibly competitive market. In our conversation we get really deep into the product values and principles at Miro. The product development process, how Varun approaches competitive threats. How a bi monthly company wide product demo ritual.

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