Ep #6: Radar's CEO on Building an API-First Company
Nick Patrick, the CEO of API-first location platform company Radar cut his teeth in PM roles at Microsoft, Foursquare and Handy, before starting Radar in 2016.
As cofounder and leader of Radar, Nick shares his experience on how to fuel growth, choose your partners, ship products faster & with confidence, and many more invaluable perspectives for professionals in the API platform ecosystem. Specifically, we cover:
- PMs are Mini-CEOs
- Startups Run at a Million MPH
- Fuel Growth with Partnerships
- Overlapping Customers & Use Cases Are Best
- Show ROI Inside Your Platform
- Use Moesif to Ship Faster with Confidence
- Use Consistent Names With New Endpoints
- Package Your API to Solve a Pain Point and Move a Metric
- Focus on the Economic Buyer
- Docs Should be Simple Yet Complete
- Use a Forcing Function to Keep Docs Current
- Do More Localization Post-COVID
- Find a Cofounder That Complements You