Dan Olsen

Olsen Solutions

Olsen Solutions offers training and consulting in product management, UX design, analytics, marketing, and Lean Startup. Clients include Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, Box, Microsoft, Medallia, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, One Medical Group, PayPal, Procore, Gartner, Turner, Epocrates, and Financial Engines. You can learn more at www.olsensolutions.com.

Product Management Trainer & Consultant

Wiley

My bestselling book The Lean Product Playbook provides practical guidance on product management and Lean Startup principles to help you create products that customers love:
http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874/
It is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.
In addition to the English edition, it has been translated to Chinese, Polish, and Turkish.
There is also a paperback edition available in India.
Learn more at https://leanproductplaybook.com

Author of The Lean Product Playbook

Lean Product & Lean UX Meetup Silicon Valley

I founded the monthly Lean Product & Lean UX Meetup Silicon Valley, which has over 12,000 members. Each month I host a product thought leader to share their ideas and have a discussion with our group. Learn more at https://www.meetup.com/lean-product
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the videos of our awesome speakers: https://www.youtube.com/danolsen

Founder, Lean Product & Lean UX Meetup

Lean Startup Co.

Senior Faculty

Medallia

Product Management Consultant

YourVersion

CEO and cofounder of YourVersion, a start-up building "Pandora for your real-time web content." YourVersion launched at the TechCrunch50 Conference where it won the People's Choice Award. YourVersion's real-time discovery engine is the best way to stay on top of the topics you care about, bringing you the latest relevant news, blogs, tweets, and videos. YourVersion also makes it easy to bookmark and share pages via email, Facebook, and Twitter with automatic link shortening. The YourVersion product suite spans the website, free tools for every browser, and free mobile apps.

CEO & Cofounder

Friendster

Friendster is the pioneer of the social networking space, with financial backing from Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital, and Battery Ventures.

VP of Product

Intuit

Quicken Brokerage was a unique start-up within Intuit's Quicken division whose strategic goal was to diversify and grow the division's revenue.  I was the second person on the team and the head of product management, responsible for determining our product offering and working with engineering to nail our aggressive development timeline.  Under my leadership, the Quicken Brokerage team launched a world-class online brokerage website from scratch in 8 months.  Designed to be the best brokerage for Quicken users, Quicken Brokerage achieved feature parity with E*Trade, Schwab, and Fidelity while providing a great user interface and unique tax-smart investing features, receiving accolades from the financial services press and analysts.  The most notable feature was the real-time tax advice proactively provided on the trading screen before the user placed a trade (on which I have a patent pending).

Group Product Manager, Quicken Brokerage

Responsible for the entire Quicken product line.
Managed Quicken Product Management Team, which I built and grew.  Coached and developed new product managers.
Led complete UI redesign of Quicken 2002 working with external design firm Fitch.
Determined long-term product strategy.

Group Product Manager, Quicken

Responsible for the Quicken for Windows product line. 
Managed Quicken for Windows Product Management Team. Coached and developed new product managers.
Led qualitative and quantitative user research.
Wrote Quicken 2001 for Windows MRD.
Main PR spokesperson on press tour with major computer, business, and financial media (i.e., Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Time, Newsweek, CNET, PC Magazine, etc.)

Senior Product Manager, Quicken

Product Manager, Quicken

Goldman Sachs

Investment Banking Summer Associate

Product Management Trainer, Author, and Speaker helping executives build great products and strong product teams

My passion is building great products. I am a hands-on trainer and consultant that helps companies build and optimize their products and product teams. I wrote the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook published by Wiley.
My clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Walmart, Sam's Club, Box, Uber, HP, Nike, Taco Bell, One Medical Group, Medallia, and Financial Engines.
I am a Stanford MBA with a strong technical background and deep expertise in product management, UX design, analytics, marketing, and Lean Startup.

Super excited to host my friend and serial entrepreneur Hiten Shah at Lean Product Meetup tonight to share his advice on innovation!
#productmanagement #ai

Product Management Leader, Consultant, Trainer & Speaker helping leaders build great products and strong product teams

🚀 Want to improve how Product teams work? I’d love to hear from you!
🔍 I’m doing Discovery with Product teams about your workflows & pain points.
👉 To chat, please share your info (<2 min) at https://lnkd.in/ga5MHYyR
🙌 Thanks for contributing! 
#productmanagement #ux #discovery

Open article: Dan Olsen's Research Survey by forms.gle

Exciting to see Lovable so quickly integrating Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model: https://lnkd.in/gABDtUeT
#productmanagement #vibecoding #ai

📅 Product leaders: Do you have unused budget for training, consulting, or coaching that will disappear after Dec 31st? If you’d like to use it to level up your product org in 2026, I’m happy to help. I teach tailored trainings sessions on:
⭐️ Best practices in Product Management
🤖 Vibe coding / prototyping
🧠 Transforming to a Product Mindset / Digital Transformation
⚡️ Product strategy and prioritization
We can lock in the budget now and schedule the work for Q1 or later next year.
If that might be helpful, feel free to DM me or comment and I’ll follow up.
Thanks and Happy Holidays! 🎄✨
#productmanagement #vibecoding #ai

Magic Patterns just sent me my "Year in Review": I think it's awesome that they did that! I think this is an even stronger use case than my Spotify Year in Review (which was great) since I'm creating things on Magic Patterns.
#productmanagement #vibecoding

Was fun seeing all the awesome decorations and Oscar awards at Netflix!
Super excited to watch Stranger Things Season 5 in just 4 days! Such a great show!

Want to see the "soul" of Anthropic's Claude's AI agent? A clever researcher discovered a "soul document" in the new Claude 4.5 Opus. It's a fascinating read that describes how Claude is a novel kind of entity that may experience functional emotions, analogous to but distinct from human feelings.
https://lnkd.in/ghAjfU9H 
#productmanagement #ai #genai

I'm excited to announce Rocket as a new sponsor of Lean Product Meetup! They just launched their iOS app so you can vibe code on your phone: https://lnkd.in/dgQuvMYu Congrats to Deepak Dhanak and team!
Join us Dec 11th via Zoom or in person to hear Hiten Shah share his advice on Reality vs. Hype on How AI is Changing Product in 2026: https://lnkd.in/g3-Nrq-P
#productmanagement #vibecoding #ai

Transforming logic into magic. Building Rocket.

Today is a meaningful milestone for us at Rocket.

We’ve always believed that building shouldn’t depend on where you are or what tools you have- only on the strength of your idea.

With that belief, we’re launching Rocket Mobile for iPhone.

For the first time, Rocket isn’t something you come to.
It’s something that stays with you.

Same intelligence. Same capability. Same speed.
Now in your pocket.

You can now build real products from your phone-
start an idea, fix a flow, update a feature, integrate deploy instantly- all in the in-between moments that usually go wasted.

This changes the rhythm of how people build:
web → mobile → web, without losing context or momentum.

This is just the first step toward a fully ambient, always-with-you building experience.

Build anywhere. Because ideas can’t wait.

Download Rocket on your iPhone 
https://lnkd.in/dgQuvMYu

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⚡️ I’m excited to host serial entrepreneur Hiten Shah at Lean Product Meetup Dec 11th to share his advice on “Reality vs. Hype: How AI is Changing Product Work in 2026”. Join us via Zoom or in person. Learn more and register at https://lnkd.in/g3-Nrq-P
👀 Hope to see you there!
#productmanagement #ai

🐂 Looking for straight talk about AI? Don't miss serial entrepreneur Hiten Shah share his advice TONIGHT on “Reality vs. Hype: How AI is Changing Product Work.” Join us via Zoom or in person. Learn more & register at https://lnkd.in/g3-Nrq-P
👀 Hope to see you there!
#productmanagement #ai

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