Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis

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I invited James Lewis on to help understand the idea of a “fractional product manager” (and we covered that) but it turned into James’ story of how we transitioned from that into cofounder of a new SaaS, Lemon, in the payments space.

Brian and James’ conversation was recorded on December 8th, 2023.

Brian's update was recorded on March 8th, 2024.

• (00:00) - Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis
• (03:59) - James' current day to day
• (06:50) - Transitioning from dev to project management
• (09:56) - The first big move and early learnings
• (15:36) - Working as a fractional product manager for lemon
• (17:56) - How James landed the lemon role
• (20:31) - Dusting off the dev hat
• (23:34) - What is lemon?
• (25:24) - ...And how does it work?
• (28:44) - lemon's current roadmap

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