Hugh Molotsi

I’m a product and technology leader with 30+ years of experience building global solutions for small businesses and consumers—especially where innovation, scale, and customer trust intersect. I’ve helped launch disruptive products, led digital transformation efforts, and focused my career on developing leaders and expanding opportunity in tech.Highlights: ‣ Former President & CTO, BuyNothing, a gift-economy platform with 15M+ members worldwide ‣ Spent 22 years at Intuit, serving as Engineering Fellow and VP of Innovation ‣ Inaugural recipient of Intuit’s Founders Innovation Award (2011) for pioneering contributions to Intuit Payments ‣ Board member: Barloworld and Mozilla CorporationI’m also the co-author of The Intrapreneur’s Journey, a practical guide to building cultures of innovation inside large organizations. I’m passionate about grassroots innovation and creating environments where strong ideas get heard—no matter where they come from.
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Your Lean Startup Organizational Transformation

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program You’ve read Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup and have become a true believer, i.e. the path to transforming your company and

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What’s Better than Brainstorming?

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program In the innovation process, one of our earliest activities is ideation, i.e. collecting many ideas so we have several

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There’s an MVP for That

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program The Lean Startup is a methodology that helps increase our odds of success when working on a venture under

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Is it Really OK to Fail?

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” – Morihei Ueshiba “Never be afraid to fail.

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Time to Innovate

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog Perhaps the most underutilized assets in most companies are the ideas in their employees’ heads. It makes sense that the people spending most of

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Be Careful What You Choose to Measure

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program On Thursday July 26, 2018, Facebook set a dubious record: The value of their shares plunged 19% erasing $119

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Falling in Love with the Problem, Part 1

This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog You’ve probably heard this quote before: “Fall in love with the problem not the solution.” But what does “falling in love with the problem”

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