The best business practices in the world are worth nothing if those implementing them don’t have a deep understanding of their market. In the early 2000’s, when eBay went to do battle in the Chinese e-commerce market, a summer in Shanghai taught me this first hand.
Category: product area
Posts on various product areas that I’ve worked on including sports, TV media, eCommerce, search, and mobile apps.
When to Ask Forgiveness and Secretly Build a Product Anyway
Don’t let your organization kill your next baby tiger. Learn from an example when keeping secrets at work paid off for everyone.
Favorite Winter Olympics Press
When your team works as hard and long on a project, like the experience we built for the 2018 Winter Olympics, its nice to step back and see what those outside your company think of what you shipped. And even better if it’s positive. 🙂 Here’s a roundup of my favorite clippings so far: Engadget…
The making of an Olympian
What we can all learn from Olympians about life and career while Preston shared upcoming X1 experience for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Prepping your TV for Kickoff
Growing up I wasn’t much of a football fan but having spent the last 5 years building features for sports fans… It’s become a passion of mine and one that I’ve dug deep on in terms of customer needs all in the name of “research” right? Despite the headlines of ebbing viewership of football… It…
Speaking @ NASCAR Fuel for Business
Spoke at NASCAR event on how sports and technology are converging to bring fans ever closer to the action at home.
OneTwoSee + Comcast = Happy Sports Fans
Today at Comcast we announced the acquisition of Philly-based sports startup OneTwoSee will join the rest of my Sunnyvale-based team to form what I think will be the best sports technology team in the business. From my post on Comcast Voices: They not only bolster our efforts to build a best-in-class sports TV experience but also underscore…
Watch a game like never before with baseball extras for X1 Platform
This week one of my development teams launched a new feature in partnership with Philly startup OneTwoSee that I’m particularly proud of. Excerpt from my post on the Comcast Corporate Blog: When I sit down to watch a baseball game, it’s fun trying to think like a major league manager, guess- along with player moves…
The Making of X2
A heart-warming behind the scenes look at how we at Comcast are building the future of TV from the perspective of some of my colleagues. Want to join in? We’re hiring: sv.comcast.com
March Madness on X1
I love seeing the Sports App on X1 our team here made while it’s March Madness. Whenever you want to catchup on the tournament just launch the app on your TV, browse all the live games, and click on the one you want to watch (no need to remember if its CBS, TNT, truTV, etc). Then while…