By Elena Leonova · founder, OneRank· former CPO, advisor, coach.
Tuesday mornings, five minutes.
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By slide two, the room knows. CFOs don't fund features — they fund gaps closing on schedule. The case fails before you finish presenting it, and you don't realize why until you stop building it the way you've been taught.

About the Author
Former Chief Product Officer with 15+ years across Magento, eBay, PayPal, BigCommerce and Spryker. Now an executive product strategy advisor and coach. Writing the book The Art of Platform Products (2026).
I write about commercial AI product strategy, business economics and executive judgment — how to build products customers value and pay for, make better investment decisions, and create business outcomes with economics that scale.
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