Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career
By Lenny Rachitsky
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Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
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| Episode | Date |
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How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Failure
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Brian Chesky’s new playbook
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
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May 28, 2023 |
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Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)
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May 18, 2023 |
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Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles | Ayo Omojola (Carbon Health, Cash App)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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May 04, 2023 |
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How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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How to build a cult-like brand | Laura Modi (Bobbie)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar)
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge)
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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