Megan Caywood: A Product Playbook to Building a Unicorn

What does it take to build a billion dollar business? In this talk, Megan Caywood Cooper - ex Chief Product Officer at Barclays, and recently ClearBank - will explore what it takes to build a unicorn business from scratch, how to structure the product roadmap and align against other key milestones as a business, and in the process will bring this to life through referencing her own experience at Xero and Starling Bank as well as referencing other use cases in the industry.

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1. A Product Playbook to Building a Unicorn Megan Caywood, Founder and CEO of Caywood @MeganCaywood Caywood.io
2. What is a unicorn? A company with an investor valuation of $1 billion+
3. 10 key ingredients in building a Unicorn business
4. Key Ingredient #1: WOW Moments
5. Key Ingredient #2: Deep Customer Empathy
6. Key Ingredient #3: High Performing Team
7. Key Ingredient #4: Building Efficiently
8. Key Ingredient #5: Deep Competitor Knowledge
9. Key Ingredient #6: Reducing Friction to Increase Conversion
10. Key Ingredient #7: Strong Distribution Hook(s)
11. Key Ingredient #8: Well Written Requirements
12. Key Ingredient #9: Timing
13. Key Ingredient #10: A Winning Mindset
14. Thank you! Megan Caywood, Founder and CEO of Caywood @MeganCaywood Caywood.io