Strategy question
You are the founding PM for New Markets and Monetization and can only tackle one area in the next 6 months: partner billing, spend controls, unified account and wallet, or a new vertical. How would you choose where to start, what evidence would you gather, and how would you turn that into a roadmap tied to company metrics like partner-booked volume, non-coding platform revenue, startup revenue, and unified volume?
- Anthropic
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Prioritization judgment across foundational infrastructure bets versus a new market bet, tied explicitly to company level metrics.
How to approach it
- Map each option to the company metric it most directly moves: partner billing to partner booked volume, spend controls to non coding platform revenue retention, unified account and wallet to unified volume, a new vertical to entirely new revenue.
- Gather evidence on current blockers, for example whether partner deals are currently stalled on billing infrastructure, or whether spend control gaps are causing churn in existing accounts.
- Weigh foundational leverage: unified account and wallet or spend controls likely unlock or protect revenue across many future initiatives, while a new vertical is a narrower, higher risk bet.
- Weigh urgency: if a specific evidence point shows near term revenue at risk, such as partner deals blocked, that argues for prioritizing that lever now over a longer term platform investment.
- Make the call and state it explicitly, then name the metric you would track weekly to confirm the bet is paying off.
- State the specific evidence that would make you switch to a different lever next quarter.
What a strong answer includes
- Ties each option explicitly to the company metric named in the question rather than treating them as generic priorities.
- Uses a concrete piece of evidence, like stalled partner deals, to justify urgency rather than picking by gut feel.
- Distinguishes foundational, compounding bets from narrower, one off bets explicitly.
- Names the specific tracking metric and the evidence that would trigger a pivot.
Common mistakes
- Failing to connect the choice back to the named company metrics, staying generic instead.
- Trying to make progress on all four areas instead of committing to one for six months.
Likely follow-up questions
- What would you tell the team responsible for the deprioritized areas?
- What early evidence in month one would tell you this was the wrong bet?
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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