The Art of Product: 93: Company of One with Paul Jarvis

About this Episode

After a QuickTime error eradicated Paul Jarvis’s conversation with Ben and Derrick for an Art of Product episode, he’s back with an update on his recently published book, Company of One.

Should Paul strike while the iron is hot? Despite the book’s success and being encouraged to write another one, Paul wants to take a necessary break before proposing a new book idea.

Today’s Topics Include:

Legally Binding Thumbs-up Emoji: How Paul sold rights for book to be in 13 languages
Break between Building: Frustration of figuring things out, replaced with hammock thinking and relaxation
Paul’s writing process fills fountain of ideas; ready to do a book on digital privacy
Slack Support Group: Help yourself and others
Level Failure Leads to Filtering Idea Criteria: Shouldn’t be mission-critical product; require more than a few decision makers; and native apps shouldn’t be a minimum requirement
Company of One: Doesn’t necessarily refer to one person, but mindset
Balance between technology you know and learning curve for something you don’t
Software as a Service (SaaS) Business: Scale up or stay small?
Derrick describes Company of One as what he aspires toward, but is open to possibility of co-founders
Nothing Lasts Forever: Question growth, not stagnation
Seek and scale support, especially when using third-party software
Drumroll, Please: Ben announced plans for public launch of Tuple in August 2019