
Perri names the organizational failure mode precisely: companies that measure success by shipping features rather than producing outcomes. The book is a diagnosis of product management dysfunction at the company level and a structural argument for why PM must own outcomes, not output, to function at all.
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How leaders turn a founder-driven startup into a company that lasts.
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When and how to put speed before efficiency to capture a market before rivals.
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Fadell built the iPod, the iPhone, and Nest. Build is structured as a book of advice organized by career stage and product phase. It is unusually honest about failure, about the texture of executive dysfunction, and about what it actually takes to ship physical products at Apple-level quality. The section on storytelling for products is particularly strong.
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