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I partner with startups to build winning products, and help them move 2x faster with confidence and clarity their direction. My strengths are building AI that feels more "human" and natural to use, and using AI to automate low-leverage tasks to focus on highest priorities and move faster.
I'm a product leader and coach with 14+ years of experience building products in 0 to 1 startups and in Fortune 500 giants in multiple industries, including AI and blockchain. I've worked across B2C, B2B2C, and B2B SaaS. Coaching and teaching are passions of mine, and I've taught guest lectures at Columbia and West Point. Advising a couple startups, and mentoring a couple product people. My insights on AI and tech have been highlighted in Rolling Stone and The Atlantic.
In my coaching, I coach ambitious founders, business owners, and product managers who want to drive the success of the business, not be dragged by it.
My product blog: https://productmindlab.substack.com/
My innovation blog: https://annetgriffin.substack.com/
My innovation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@annetgriffin
🌟 What Drives Me:
- Customer Centricity: In any job, speaking directly with customers weekly is important to me. I also dive into data daily. It's about peeling back the layers to understand where their core problems and opportunities for the business intersect.
- Validating Ideas Quickly & De-Risking Investments: I champion rapid prototyping in product development as a crucial strategy for validating ideas and de-risking investments quickly. This approach accelerates feedback collection, fosters a culture of experimentation, and enhances cross-functional collaboration. By prioritizing data-driven decisions and iterative learning, products resonate deeply with customer needs and market demands.
- Continuous Learning: My dedication to personal and professional growth is relentless. I've taken courses via Reforge and Maven, and I've been working with a Product Leadership coach since January 2023. I continuously feed my curiosity through a steady diet of strategy, product, business, and tech audiobooks.
- Coaching and Mentoring: I help ambitious founders product managers transform from overwhelmed to confident leaders through focused 1:1 coaching.
🎤 Public Speaking and Education:
Since 2018, I've been actively creating and delivering talks and classes on AI, blockchain, and tech ethics at prestigious institutions like Columbia and West Point. I've given workshops to organizations like LACMA.
My Talks: https://www.annetgriffin.com/talks-lectures 
A wizard of the software realm.
I have been helping design, develop and deploy powerful and profitable digital products for startups and Fortune 500 companies for 10+ years.
Experienced across many industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Crypto, Media, and CPG.
I have a deep understanding of a wide range of technologies, enterprise systems and tools such as Google Cloud, AWS, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Postgres, iOS, Android and more. 
