PM to Founder Series: the Story of Founding an AI Startup and a Healthcare Startup

Speaker

• Mengmeng Chen, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gather, ex-Sr Director of Product Management@F5.
• Guorui Su, Chief Product Officer of Klarity Health, ex-Head of Product@Shippo, ex-Growth&Analaytics Manager@Google.

Moderators

• Iris Qu, Product Pub Industry Insight Lead

Overview

Have you thought about founding your own startup? Join us at a close-door workshop to learn how such a career change looks like.

In this session, you will gain insights in how to transform your career from product professionals into startup founders. Mengmeng will share how first-time founder vs multiple-times founder make decisions when facing challenges, how she treat and leverage this LLM trend; Guorui will share how to verify whether your startup idea is reliable or not with lowest costs, how to extract a SaaS product from the marketplace product during the scale-up stage, how the past product experience will benefit vs prevent you from being a good founder, etc. We will also have open roundtable discussions to brainstorm and participate in a few product strategies Klarity Health and Gather want to develop today.

Agenda

6:45 - 7:00 pm Event Check-in

7:00 - 8:30 pm Panel Discussion

• Preparation & Kickoff: How did the founding team come up with the idea? How to verify whether your startup idea is reliable or not with lowest costs?
• 0 - 1 stage: What some great growth or operation tactics can leverage? 
• 1 - 10 stage: What is the path to moat facing the LLM trend? How to expand the TAM by extracting SaaS product from the marketplace product?
• Looking back: What are the differences between first-time founder vs multiple-times founder? Do product mindsets sometimes  prevent you from being a good founder?

8:45 - 9:30 pm Roundtable Discussions: Challenges and thoughts on scaling and expansion

9:30 - 10:00 pm Social Time