Giff Constable

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About Giff Constable

My current classes on Maven (https://maven.com/giff-constable):* Financial Fluency for Product Leaders (4 week class)* Product Leadership in Practice (6 week class role-playing challenging moments as an exec) Giff Constable is a product leader, entrepreneur and author who has sold three companies and helped build many others. Currently, he is balancing writing, coaching, and teaching. Most recently, he was Chief Product Officer at Meetup leading a team of over 100 product managers, designers, engineers and data scientists. Prior, he ran product and engineering at Fintech marketplace Axial, and before that, was CEO of Neo, a global digital innovation consulting company that was acquired by Pivotal. In 2014, he published the book Talking to Humans as a practical guide to customer discovery for aspiring entrepreneurs. The book went on to win a special award from the National Science Foundation and is now standard reading in university and accelerator programs around the world. In 2018, he and his collaborator Frank Rimalovski followed up with the sequel Testing with Humans, which is all about running effective experiments. In 2020, he published his first science fiction novel, Becoming Monday. He is currently working on a new book, First Principles Product Management. Going back further, there are more startups (Trilogy, Envive, The Electric Sheep Company, Aprizi) and even stints as an investment banker at Broadview / Jefferies.