Strategy question
How would you relaunch Google Glasses?
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Strategic thinking on relaunching a failed hardware product, including diagnosing why it failed the first time.
How to approach it
- Diagnose the original failure: high price, limited use cases, privacy backlash, and an unclear target user.
- Reframe the target user: narrow to a use case with clear value, like enterprise workers in manufacturing or healthcare who need hands-free access.
- Redesign the value proposition: solve a specific workflow problem rather than a general consumer gadget.
- Address the trust gap: build in visible recording indicators and clear data policies to counter the privacy backlash.
- Define a go to market: enterprise sales and partnerships rather than a broad consumer launch.
- Set a success metric: adoption and retention within the target enterprise vertical, not units sold to consumers.
What a strong answer includes
- Grounds the pivot in the well known original failure reasons, price and privacy backlash (common knowledge), not invented detail.
- Chooses a specific vertical, like warehouse or field technicians, where hands-free access has clear ROI.
- Sets a realistic success metric, like percent of pilot customers renewing after 6 months, not broad consumer sales.
Common mistakes
- Relaunching the same consumer product with cosmetic changes only.
- Ignoring the privacy backlash that killed the original.
- No specific target user or use case.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you address the privacy concerns that hurt the original launch?
- Which enterprise vertical would you pilot first and why?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop