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11/29/2022
11 : 44
Lenny’s Newsletter Holiday Gift Guide 2022
The items below are products that I've used and found to be amazing, along with a bunch sprinkled in that I discovered through this killer Twitter thread.
11/27/2022
13 : 15
How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
Listen now (72 min) | Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach who's been helping product teams expand their skill sets since 2013. She's also the author of Strong Product People,
11/22/2022
13 : 34
Startup to exit: Lessons from a first-time founder
Why VC funding is like a drug, when building in stealth is a mistake, what to do when you lose conviction, how to approach selling your company, and more
11/20/2022
13 : 24
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
Listen now (65 min) | Ian McAllister is the Senior Director of Product for Vehicles at Uber. Before moving to Uber, Ian spent over a decade directing teams at Amazon, where he created and led Amazon
11/17/2022
13 : 4
Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Listen now (75 min) | Gergely Orosz writes the #1 technology newsletter at Substack, called The Pragmatic Engineer. He started his career as a software developer in the UK, spent three years at Skype,
11/15/2022
13 : 34
How Figma builds product
Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma, shares lessons learned, plug-and-play templates, and fresh insights into how Figma builds product
11/13/2022
13 : 14
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)
Listen now (67 min) | Alex Hardiman is Chief Product Officer at the New York Times, where she oversees the company's news, cooking, games, audio and advertising products. Previously, Alex was Chief
11/11/2022
16 : 44
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11/10/2022
13 : 14
How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
Listen now (71 min) | Matt Mochary is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Rippling,
11/8/2022
13 : 14
How to determine your activation metric
Including a deep dive into multi-player B2B SaaS products, featuring Figma, Linear, Snyk, Airtable, Slack, and Asana
11/6/2022
13 : 14
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
Listen now (92 min) | Ben Williams is VP of Product at Snyk, an industry-leading security platform for developers, last valued at $8.5b. He's also a product and growth advisor with over 20 years of
11/3/2022
11 : 14
Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst)
Listen now (69 min) | Lauren Ipsen is one of the most well-known and respected executive recruiters in the industry, having placed over 90 senior product leaders at companies including Twitter, Reddit,
10/30/2022
9 : 4
Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
Listen now (61 min) | Sachin Monga is the Head of Product at Substack, a platform that I personally use every day, and love. Before Substack, Sachin co-founded an app called Cocoon, which he ended up
10/27/2022
11 : 14
Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
Listen now (56 min) | Barbra Gago is the founder and CEO of Pando, where she's democratizing career progression. Previously she worked as the Chief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Marketing at
10/25/2022
12 : 14
What is a good activation rate
Good and great activation rates based on the results of our benchmarking survey
10/23/2022
11 : 24
How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar)
Listen now (65 min) | Fareed Mosavat is Chief Development Officer at Reforge, where he leads production, content, and new-product experiences. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Slack and
10/20/2022
11 : 14
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
Listen now (67 min) | Adriel Frederick is VP of Product Management at Reddit X, where he helps incubate and scale new products. He is a former Product Lead at Facebook, as well as a former PM and
10/18/2022
12 : 4
Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task
As taught to us by Oceans 11
10/16/2022
11 : 14
Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
Listen now (54 min) | Janna Bastow is a former product manager, and currently the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad. She also co-founded Mind the Product, a community for PMs, which has grown to 300000
10/13/2022
16 : 24
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
Listen now (66 min) | Adam Fishman has decades of experience building and scaling some incredible businesses, like Lyft, Patreon, and Imperfect Foods. He is currently an Executive in Residence at