{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagileembeddedpodcast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fengineering-organizations-part-2-HbPHLdi4","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Engineering Organizations Part 2: Product Companies and Market-Driven Focus","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/690c0598-d6d3-495c-adc7-8975d4e3549b/f04d51e2-6fd8-4cc4-905a-0301a6656c8c/cover-image.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/8d0ed499-7a05-4499-8e19-c91776805540\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Engineering Organizations Part 2: Product Companies and Market-Driven Focus\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In this second part of our series on engineering organizations, Jeff and Luca explore how companies that build products should focus their efforts differently depending on their stage and scope. We start with startups and early-stage companies desperately searching for product-market fit, where the brutal truth is: quality doesn't matter yet. Your MVP should embarrass you—if it doesn't, you waited too long. We discuss the critical mental shift from throwaway prototypes to proper engineering once validation arrives, and why technical founders often fail by solving the wrong problem brilliantly."}