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 May 6th, 2024.
- (00:00) - Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis
(04:01) - James' current day to day
(06:52) - Transitioning from dev to project management
(09:58) - The first big move and early learnings
(15:38) - Working as a fractional product manager for lemon
(17:58) - How James landed the lemon role
(20:33) - Dusting off the dev hat
(23:36) - What is lemon?
(25:26) - ...And how does it work?
(28:46) - lemon's current roadmap
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