There are days when your vision runs ahead of you like a child in a market—curious, unafraid, convinced the world will keep pace.
And then there are days when that child trips over someone else’s definition of what “makes sense.” This story is from one of those days.
I had just lost funding for a product I was building at Amazon—part of Grand Challenge. It was the kind of loss that feels like a quiet door closing behind you. So I stepped toward the next open one, an internal interview with a Principal Engineer.
He asked: “What’s the most innovative thing you’ve done?”
And I said, “I made the computers by the hospital beds disappear.”I watched confusion ripple across his face. We talked.
As a Product Manager, I’ve learned that our job isn’t to build what’s obvious. It’s to see what others don’t, feel the friction where no one’s looking, and dance with every constraint until something beautiful emerges. Even if, sometimes, the music stops before the dance is done.
In this week’s article on Substack, I share a personal experience from building an IPTV based patented product. #gratitude to Greg Pasetta @kevin knickerbocker and Vanessa Ogle (Founder of Enseo)
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