Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis

Open Threads

I invited James Lewis on to help understand the idea of a “fractional product manager” (and we covered that) but it turned into James’ story of how we transitioned from that into cofounder of a new SaaS, Lemon, in the payments space.

Brian and James’ conversation was recorded on December 8th, 2023.

• (00:00) - Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis
• (02:13) - James' current day to day
• (05:04) - Transitioning from dev to project management
• (08:10) - The first big move and early learnings
• (13:50) - Working as a fractional product manager for lemon
• (16:10) - How James landed the lemon role
• (18:02) - Dusting off the dev hat
• (21:05) - What is lemon?
• (22:55) - ...And how does it work?
• (26:15) - lemon's current roadmap