Cash Flow Reality: How to Design What Ships

Hosted by David Wang and Jacalin Ding

Wed, Nov 26, 2025

10:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Strategic Design Career Accelerator
Jacalin Ding
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What you'll learn

How Business Goals Drive Priority

Understand how revenue, cost, and cash flow shape what gets funded.

Inside a PM’s Decision Process

The real framework PMs use to green-light, delay, or kill work.

Why Company Stage Changes Everything

See why a design gets approved in a corporate but cut in a scale-up, with examples from both co-hosts.

Three Actions You Can Take Today

Practical steps to link your work to outcomes and spot projects likely to ship.

Why this topic matters

Have you ever spent months working on a brilliant project, only to find out it got canned at the end? In this lightening session, a design leader and a product leader pulls back the curtain - to show you a profit equation before things get built. Join Jacalin and David to learn how cash flow, business stage, and the profit equation determine what gets built.

You'll learn from

David Wang

Product Leader (Ex-Kajabi, Linktree, Expedia)

Hey there! 👋 I'm Dave Wang. I've taught over 4,000+ people in the PM word and have helped hundreds of people break into Product Management!

Product was my first job, and it's the only job I've done for the past 17+ years. I started as a Junior PM, then moved to Senior PM, and then worked my way up to a Group PM at Linktree, And not just in one type of environment but across startups, scale-ups, and corporates.

For the past 5 years, I've been building and 'whole-selling' Product Management courses with institutions like General Assembly, Harvard Innovation Labs, Melbourne Business School and EntryLevel.

Working with education institutions gave me the opportunity to help countless students break into PM or get promoted into higher roles.

In 2024, I quit my $250K+ job in Australia to move to the US and start over as a Product Manager.

Testing my methods firsthand, I overcame rejections, rebuilt my network, and proved they work globally. Now I want to teach my methods to even more people and to help you make that career transition.


Jacalin Ding

Design Leader | Business Design Coach | 2x Business Founders

Jacalin Ding is a seasoned product design leader and business strategist with over 15 years of experience in building and leading design teams and products. She has collaborated with startups, enterprises, and agencies across New York, Vancouver, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.

As a strategic business designer, Jacalin has worked directly with CEOs and founders, helping to raise millions in funding for their businesses. She has also successfully built side businesses that generates multiple six figures in annual revenue.

Since 2018, Jacalin's courses have empowered over 10,000 designers to connect design with business success. She has coached designers from leading companies including Google, DoorDash, LinkedIn, IBM, Microsoft and Atlassian.

Coached designers at

Google
DoorDash
LinkedIn
Atlassian

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