Product Data Teams 101

Product data teams vs data product management, by the author.

On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for a “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” This document essentially became the birth certificate of the car. It took 7 years for the first car, the Duryea Motor wagon, to appear in the US in 1893.

Only 30 years later, the United States was the world’s largest car manufacturer by far, with an annual production of 3.6 million, Canada a far second with only 135 thousand a…