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Instagram: Product Launch
Instagram launched new 'Instants' app - a disappearing photo product similar to Snapchat
Source: Wired
The leadership read
Product momentum tends to widen technology product and commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: This lands while the Talent Market Index reads 98.6 (Neutral) — down 1.4 versus the prior month — and Americas signal share is easing (-2.6pts).
Instagram: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the Technology median of 1 across 191 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 2 tracked across 15 days.
MitchelLake in this thematic
Case study
US Sales Lead - first full-time hire in the United States, spearheading US market entry
Traffio
Our work · 2020
Chief Technology Officer
Splitit
Americas · Fintech · payments · fintech
Our work · 2019
VP Sales (US) / CEO
Multiple (Longtail UX, Genbook)
Americas · Technology/SaaS · founder-transition · international-expansion
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