#25 Building products in different contexts: big tech, scaleups, and startups | Melissa Mills (Ardoq, Kahoot!, Google)

Today's guest is Melissa Mills, VP of Product at Ardoc, former Director of Product at Kahoot!, and former Global Product Lead at Google in San Francisco.

Ardoc is a fast-growing scale-up in Norway, recognized by Gartner as a leading Enterprise Architecture Tool.

Their Series D raise is one of the five largest private funding rounds by a Norwegian tech business.

Many enterprise companies like Carlsberg Group are choosing Ardoc, and this episode will give you an insider view of how they build their products.

Melissa and I talked about:

- Ardoc's growth and product journey

- Product management in big tech, startups, and scale-ups

- Product Managers' valuable traits according to company stage

- The importance of domain knowledge in B2B

- How Product and Sales should partner

- Onboarding product teams

- Cultural differences between doing Product in Norway versus Silicon Valley

- And so much more

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