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How to build your PM second brain with ChatGPT
Use AI to amplify your craft, not replace it
How to spot a top 1% startup early
Three key lessons from people who picked multiple iconic companies before they were obvious
A year free of PostHog ($16,500 value): The all-in-one analytics, experimentation, feature flag, surveys, session replay, error tracking, data warehouse, LLM analytics platform
A deal you won’t find anywhere else—bringing the total value of the Product Pass to over $25,000
Part 2 of how to get the most out of your product pass—and welcome, Stripe Atlas, to the bundle!
Tips for taking full advantage of the 17+ free premium products you have access to as a paid subscriber
A builder’s guide to living a long and healthy life
For something a little different
Everyone should be using Claude Code more
How to get started, and 50 ways non-technical people are using Claude Code in their work and life
A free year of Devin: the world’s most advanced autonomous AI software engineer
Insider subscribers now get $1,350/year of Devin, on top of 15 additional premium products. All the advice, community, and tools you need to build and grow a world-class product (and career).
Introducing the GAIN framework for feedback: an evidence-based approach to giving feedback that people love, appreciate, and act on
A step-by-step guide to crafting feedback you’ll want to give and people will want to get
How to get the most out of your product pass, part 1
Tips for taking full advantage of the 15+ free premium products you have access to as a paid subscriber
Building eval systems that improve your AI product
A practical guide to moving beyond generic scores and measuring what matters
How to find the perfect name
A step-by-step playbook for naming in a noisy and AI-driven product landscape
Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle
Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework
Essential reading for product builders—part 2
10 more timeless essays you probably haven’t read but should
25 proven tactics to accelerate AI adoption at your company
Practical advice from AI-forward companies like Shopify, Ramp, Zapier, Duolingo, Intercom, and Whoop
Lenny's Product Pass: 20+ free premium products, available exclusively for paid annual subscribers
Over $25,000 in value for just $350. All the tools, community, and advice you need to build and grow a world-class product and career.
Build your personal AI copilot
A guide to using AI as a long-term thinking partner (including prompts to get you started)
Essential reading for product builders—part 1
7 timeless essays you likely haven’t read but should
What people are vibe coding (and actually using)
50+ useful/fun/clever examples of what non-technical people are building—to inspire your own vibe-coding journey
How tech’s most resilient workers handle burnout
Introducing ARMOR: a new framework building on our tech worker sentiment survey insights
How to get your entire team prototyping with AI
A guide to creating AI prototypes that match your brand and are integrated into every step of your development lifecycle
How tech workers really feel about work right now
Results from our first-ever large-scale tech worker sentiment survey
Five principles for successfully managing managers
Why skip leads are the load-bearing pillars of your organization
State of the product job market in 2025
There’s a lot to be optimistic about
The ultimate guide to negotiating your comp
The step-by-step guide that’s helped hundreds of leaders secure life-changing compensation
Make product management fun again with AI agents
A guide to AI agents for product managers
A new perk for annual subscribers: A free year of some of the world's most beloved products (while supplies last)
And new products will continue to be added to this deal over time
Beyond vibe checks: A PM’s complete guide to evals
How to master the emerging skill that can make or break an AI product
The definitive guide to mastering product sense interviews
A step-by-step playbook to help you ace your PM interview
How to ship like a startup
Seven lessons from the story of Figma Slides
Which companies produce the best product managers
Part two in my exploration of the companies that find and develop the best PMs
Why you’re so angry at work (and what to do about it)
A practical framework for transforming big feelings into wisdom
1,000,000
Taking a moment to celebrate and reflect—and then back to work
Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy
Five steps to map out and build alignment around the future of your company
How much product managers make in the U.S., Europe, and Canada
Comprehensive salary, equity, and total comp benchmarks for product managers
Announcing the greatest product bundle ever: Get a year free of Granola, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, and Perplexity with an annual subscription
New perk for paid subscribers of Lenny’s Newsletter
Introducing the Foundation Sprint: From the creators of the Design Sprint
An exclusive first look at Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s new book, Click, and the new 2-day process for jump-starting big projects right
What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025
Insights from 6,500 tech professionals on their favorite and least favorite tools
Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity
A unified developer productivity framework from the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
A guide to AI prototyping for product managers
How to turn your idea into a working prototype in minutes
The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter—2024 Edition
My all-time best posts and podcast episodes, categorized by the problem you need solved
Which companies accelerate PM careers most
A first-ever deep dive into the impact 50+ companies have had on alumni trajectories
Lenny’s Newsletter holiday gift guide 2024
Art, gadgets, household items, health and wellness ideas, kids’ stuff, and more
How to become a supermanager with AI
AI is ushering in an era of “super ICs.” What about managers?
Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.
How to thrive in “the great flattening” by redefining work norms
On being funny at work
Seven strategies (and some stories) to help you harness the power of humor
Five proven prompt engineering techniques (and a few more-advanced tactics)
How to get exactly what you want when working with AI
How much do U.S. product managers really make?
The rise of ICs, the unexpected salary dip for managers, why salary only moderately impacts satisfaction, and more revealing insights from our recent compensation survey.
Why no productivity hack will solve your overwhelm
How the Internal Family Systems model can help you listen to your inner wisdom and get unstuck
Why cash is king
The first set of results from our inaugural compensation survey reveals the need for stable income above all else
A PM’s guide to influence
How to align stakeholders so decisions go your way
State of the product job market, part 2
Which companies are hiring PMs, what hard skills are most in demand, trends in remote work, whether there’s been a shift to senior hires, what roles AI companies are hiring for, and so much more
Raising a seed round 101
The whys, whats, and hows of seed funding, with advice from the founders of Notion, Linear, Figma, Ramp, Instacart, 37signals, and more
How to communicate tradeoffs so leaders will listen
Tactical tips for teeing up critical decisions without pissing leaders off
Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work
Seven more tactics for making the most of your precious time
Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world
An optimistic case for the future of product management
Summary: AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
She has a PhD in ML from Imperial College London, spoke at TED AI SF and she writes about AI Product Management at:
Summary: April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process
April Dunford is an expert at nailing positioning for scaling tech companies and wrote Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product
Summary: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he has worked with over 600 startups
Time management techniques that actually work
Ten tactics I use every single day
Summary: The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
### Why companies should have PLG and sales ▶️
On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to)
Step-by-step tactics for facing your fears and making the ask—including templates and example scripts
Announcing the Lenny & Friends Summit 🙌
A one-day in-person event for senior product leaders
New data on the product job market
Who’s hiring, what roles are growing, the one role that’s disappearing, and more surprising insights
How close is AI to replacing product managers?
Closer than you think
Meet your Lenny’s Newsletter Fellows ✨
Welcome Tara Seshan, Natalie Rothfels, and Jules Walter 👏
General management, functional, and hybrid models: Which org design works best for top companies?
How stage, North Star metrics, and talent can impact this critical decision
How to use Perplexity in your PM work
27 examples (with actual prompts) of how product managers are using the AI-powered search engine today
In defense of feature team product managers
Why feature team PMs are real PMs
On saying no
Strategies, templates, and advice on how to stay focused while still being kind
The art of the pivot, part 2: How, why, and when to pivot
Strategies from the data for your “pivotal” decision
The art of the pivot, part 1: The definitive list of successful pivots
Details behind 30+ pivots, including how they knew it was time to pivot, how long it took them to pivot, and much more
How Perplexity builds product
Johnny Ho, co-founder and head of product, explains how he organizes his teams like slime mold, uses AI to build their AI company, and much more
How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
Introducing the ARIA framework
How AI will impact product management
Which skills will be affected or replaced, and which will become even more valuable
The secret to Duolingo’s exponential growth
Don’t kill the golden goose, maintain a sense of urgency to drive compounding growth, copy first, and more of their biggest growth lessons
Become a more technical product manager
Technical foundations for product managers
My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons
Celebrating 10 million downloads 🎉
How to successfully launch on Product Hunt (when it’s right for your startup)
Seven tips and five myths
How to learn the most about a candidate from a single interview question
High-signal-to-noise interview questions inspired by my 150+ podcast guests
You should be playing with GPTs at work
20 examples of how people are using custom GPTs to make their teams more productive
The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay
How to effectively run your own WTP study, with templates, guides, examples, and more
My favorite decision-making frameworks
Templates and guides to help you make better decisions with less drama
Adding a work trial to your interview process
Lessons from Linear, Automattic, 37signals, Gumroad, Auth0, and PostHog
How Gong builds product
Co-founder and chief product officer Eilon Reshef on autonomy, OKRs, design partners, prioritizing, interviewing, and more
What to do if your product isn’t taking off
Seven steps you can take today to try to turn things around
Inspiration for the year ahead
Powerful life mottos shared by my podcast guests
Taking the week off (and thank you!)
Happy holidays, happy new year, and back next year (a.k.a. next week)!
The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2023
The single best way to discover my all-time best stuff across both the newsletter and podcast
Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn
How single-player utility, hyper-personalization, doing things unscalably, and thinking long-term helped us bootstrap a brand-new social network
A new-parent gift guide
My favorite products for early parenthood to help your kid hit their KPIs
When they hired their first PM
Lessons, timelines, and stories from Pinterest, Looker, Instagram, Segment, Snap, Notion, and 25+ other top companies
Introducing DRICE: a modern prioritization framework
Boost your experiment win rate and help your team drive more impact
Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
What not to do when building a B2B startup
Scaling your B2B growth engine
Part seven of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
How to build a killer sales pitch
And why your real competition is “no decision”
Skipping newsletter today
Given what is happening in the world, we’ve got more important things to focus on right now
Hiring your early team
Part six of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
How Linear builds product
Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO, on taste over metrics, product teams over product managers, strategy over OKRs—and the importance of craft, profitability, and good judgment
How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers
Part four of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
How to identify your ideal customer profile (ICP)
Part three of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
How to hire your first growth team
Practical advice from 12 world-class growth experts, including Lauryn Isford, Casey Winters, Melissa Tan, Adam Fishman, Laura Schaffer, John Egan, Hila Qu, Adam Grenier, and Ben Williams
How to validate your B2B startup idea
Part two of my seven-part series on how to kickstart and scale a B2B business
How the most successful B2B startups came up with their original idea
Part one of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
What is good free-to-paid conversion
Benchmarks of good and great free-to-paid conversion rates based on a survey of 1,000+ products
How Shopify builds product
VP of Product Glen Coates on how Shopify plans around yearly themes, organizes around jobs to be done, tracks using a homegrown tool, why they shifted away from a GM structure, and much more
How Snowflake builds product
An interview with Jeff Hollan, Director of Product for Snowflake’s Developer Platform and Ecosystem
How to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market)
Learn how to get that strong yes without burning yourself out with interview prep
What 5 years at Reddit taught us about building for a highly opinionated user base
A framework, from the front lines of Reddit, for turning a sometimes combative relationship with users into a strong, productive partnership
How to create an exceptional coverage plan for your parental leave
A step-by-step guide and plug-and-play template for going on leave with peace of mind
The unconventional Palantir principles that catalyzed a generation of startups
How the principles we learned at Palantir spawned nine unicorns and 100+ venture-backed companies
How a traumatic brain injury made me a better PM—and person
Takeaways from a period of extreme adversity
What working at Figma taught me about customer obsession
VP of Product Sho Kuwamoto on the importance of feel, service, and staying close to customers
How Notion builds product
Chief Product and Technology Officer Michael Manapat on Notion’s evolving internal processes, product reviews, planning cadences, and increasing shift to synchronous communication
How Ramp builds product
Geoff Charles, VP of Product, on Ramp's unique culture of velocity, efficiency, and empowerment
How Miro builds product
Varun Parmar, Chief Product Officer at Miro, shares what they've learned about OKRs, planning, design reviews, prioritization, rituals—plus tons of plug-and-play templates you can start using today
How to do linear regression and correlation analysis
Steps, methods, tools, and use cases for locating predictable user actions and improving retention
What jury duty taught me about product management
Unexpected parallels and hidden lessons about leadership and product management from my experience on a jury
How to use ChatGPT in your PM work
Real-life examples (and actual prompts) of how PMs are already using ChatGPT day-to-day
How Duolingo builds product
Cem Kansu on Duolingo’s unique team structure, steady planning cadence, design review process, OKR templates, team rituals, and more
Growth ideas
A long and growing list of ideas to inspire your team’s thinking on increasing top-of-funnel, monetization, conversion, retention, and velocity
How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and innovative growth model
How to be prepared for layoffs
What you can do today to avoid getting caught off guard in case layoffs come for you
Growth inflections
Stories behind growth unlocks for Figma, Facebook, Airbnb, YouTube, Tinder, DoorDash, and others
I built a Lenny chatbot using GPT-3. Here’s how to build your own.
A step-by-step guide to building an AI chatbot
How Coda builds product
Lane Shackleton, CPO at Coda, shares his team’s templates, day-to-day processes, and hard-earned lessons
Five steps to starting your product-led growth motion, part 2
A guide to setting up your PLG infrastructure, tool stack, and team
Five steps to starting your product-led growth motion
An in-depth guide to getting started with PLG
The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2022
If you read one post this year, read this one—my most popular posts and podcasts, categorized and organized
My favorite PM courses
Five courses for senior PMs, and five for up-and-coming PMs
How to activate your investor network
Examples and tactics for getting the most out of your investors
Lenny’s Newsletter Holiday Gift Guide 2022
Last year, I experimented with a holiday gift guide, and it proved to be quite popular (and really fun to do)
Startup to exit: Lessons from a first-time founder
Why VC funding is a drug, when building in stealth is a mistake, what to do when you lose conviction, how to approach selling your company, and more
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
How to determine your activation metric
Including a deep dive into multi-player B2B SaaS products featuring Figma, Linear, Snyk, Airtable, Slack, Asana, and Sprig
What is a good activation rate
Benchmarks and advice for increasing your activation rate, based on a survey of 500+ products
Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task
As taught to us by Oceans Eleven
The Racecar Growth Framework—expanded and illustrated
The culmination of all my GTM and growth research in one image
How to get your marketing team to drive more impact
GACCS: A framework for aligning your marketing, product, and sales teams
How to get better at influence
What Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings can teach us about influence
When to sunset a feature
A handy checklist to help decide when it’s time to sunset a product or feature
How to measure cohort retention
A deep dive into the formulas, visualizations, and SQL you need to accurately measure and report on cohort retention—a guest post by Olga Berezovsky
All the ways to grow your product
Growth engines, turbo boosts, lubricants, kickstarts, and mid-stage accelerants
How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scale
Also, how today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users
How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 3: Craft your pitch
Lessons from Pinterest, Netflix, Tinder, Dropbox, DoorDash, Robinhood, Amazon, WhatsApp, and dozens of today’s most successful consumer businesses
How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 2: Identify your super-specific who
Lessons from Substack, Netflix, Yelp, Discord, TikTok, Instagram, Cameo, DoorDash, and dozens of others
How to kickstart and scale a consumer business
Step 1: Come up with an idea
What COVID taught me about product management
I caught COVID over the weekend and I’m taking the week off
I’ve launched a podcast!
And the first two episodes with Julie Zhuo and Shreyas Doshi are now live!
Product management career ladders
Examples, templates, titles, and attributes from 20+ companies, including Facebook, Google, DoorDash, Airbnb, Instacart, Lyft, Uber, and many more
How to win in consumer subscription
Learnings from Noom, Duolingo, Grammarly, Calm, Spotify, Future, Flo, and others
What is a good growth rate
Benchmarks and insights from the world’s best investors
Preparing for a PM interview
My favorite resources for getting ready for product interviews
How to know when to stop
A guide to avoiding burnout and establishing balance in your life—by guest author Andy Johns
How to interview product managers
Interview structure, skills to test, questions to ask, project examples, and more
Freemium vs. trial
Going freemium, adding a trial, business model disruption, and more
What is good waitlist conversion
Benchmarks and advice for making the most of your waitlist
Reforge applications open (and taking a sick day)
So I’m going to take a sick day (my first) and instead focus on resting and making next week’s post that much better
A product manager’s guide to web3
How PM'ing in web3 is different, the pros and cons of going web3, how to break in, and how to be successful—by guest author Jason Shah, head of product at Alchemy
What is good monthly churn
Benchmarks for good and great monthly churn, broken down by segment and price point
How to get promoted
7 concrete actions you can take to increase your odds
Differentiating your product
> ## Q: I know differentiation is important, but why is that, and what are ways we can differentiate our product?
Prioritizing at startups
A guide for prioritizing at an early-stage B2B startup
The top 5 things PMs should know about engineering
Guest post by Justin Gage, writer of Technically and growth at Retool
The Atomic Network
Exclusive excerpt from Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
The most common pitfalls of new product managers
The Coordinator, The Dictator, The Dreamer, The Feature Factory, and The Busted Umbrella
Lenny’s holiday gift guide
50+ gift ideas for your friends, family, and coworkers
Six rules of hiring for growth
How to hire and build your growth team—guest post by Elena Verna
🚨 Applications now open for my live course—Product Management Fundamentals
A three-week part-time live course with in-depth lectures, real-world assignments, special guests, and much more
Breaking into growth
## ✨ Announcement: Applications for my PM course now open ✨
60 ideas to boost your growth
A motherload of growth inspiration by guest author Ali Abouelatta, creator of the First 1000 newsletter
The 10 commandments of salary negotiation
Guest post by Niya Dragova, co-founder of Candor
Getting more technical
> ## Q: I don’t have a technical background, and I find it hard to follow what my engineers are saying sometimes and, even worse, to make
How behavioral science can boost your conversion rates
Guest post by Kristen Berman, co-founder of Irrational Labs
Marketplace city expansion strategy
How marketplaces like Instacart, OpenTable, Caviar, Grubhub, and others approached expanding into additional markets
Examples and templates of 1-Pagers and PRDs
I’m looking for a structure I can borrow and inspiration for what great looks like
The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2021
My all-time best posts
Five habits of highly annoying product managers
How to not be an annoying PM
Why now?
Why it matters for startups to have a strong 'why now'—and also why it doesn't
Winning at early-stage hiring
Hiring advice from founders who are crushing it
How to know if you're doing a good job as a product manager
The three things you need to get right
Choosing Your North Star Metric
A guest post on Future—a16z's new media site
My favorite PM interview questions
Ten great interview questions for product managers, plus my favorite generalist questions
Getting buy-in
By special guest contributor Shivani Berry, CEO & Founder of Arise Leadership
How long it takes to find Product-Market Fit
Stories from Cameo, DoorDash, Uber, Faire, Hipcamp, and more
Skills PMs need to build
What I learned from studying twenty PM career ladders
Healing your co-founder relationship
By special guest contributor Carole Robin, co-creator of Stanford's “Touchy Feely” GSB course
On taking time off
By special guest contributor DJ DiDonna, founder of The Sabbatical Project
Why marketplaces fail
The top five marketplaces failure modes — lessons from 30+ marketplaces
The PM 🤝 Design Partnership
Five tips for PMs working with designers — guest post by Katie Dill
What's in your software stack — Product, Design, Analytics, DS, Research, and more
Issue 68
Content-driven growth
Advice from HubSpot, Ahrefs, Intercom, Slidebean, and Webflow
Should I become a product manager
> ## Q: I'm considering venturing into product management after being a software engineer for 3 years
Increasing team velocity
> ## Q: I’m constantly feeling like my team is moving too slowly
2020 Year in Review – Issue 58
Most popular posts, tweets, and a reflection on the year
A comprehensive survey of Product Management
👋 Hello, I’m Lenny and welcome to a ✨ once-a-month-free-edition✨ of my newsletter
Ideal sprint length, designer vs. PM roles, running PM team meetings, running post-mortems, best product/executive coaches, and much more
🤩 Community Wisdom - Issue 13
Generating buzz
Ten strategies and 49 examples of successful buzz making
SEO keywords, career ladders, backlog tools, copywriting, OnlyFans, AMA with Pete Kazanjy and much more
🤩 Community Wisdom - Issue 12
When NOT to run an experiment – Issue 54
> ## Q: Should I always run an experiment when I make a change to my product?
Magical growth loops
> ## Q: Can you share examples of companies that found innovative growth loops, like marketplaces convincing their supply to drive their
Startup PM vs. big company PM
> ## Q: I’m transitioning from being the first (and only) Product Manager at a small company to being a PM at a big company
Moving from IC product manager to manager of product managers
The biggest surprises about the switch, advice for setting yourself up for the move, and tips for being successful in the new role
Top 5 most interesting things about Booking.com's early growth strategy – Issue 46
An exclusive companion piece to today's First Round Review
What it feels like when you've found product-market fit
Stories from the founders of Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, Substack, Stripe, Datadog, GitHub, Segment, Dropbox, Superhuman, Instacart, Nextdoor, and many more
Fostering a culture of experimentation
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
When to hire your first product manager
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
Getting better at product strategy
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
How to increase your product's retention
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
How to increase your retention
A peek at this week's 🔓 subscriber-only 🔓 post
Flywheels, flywheels, flywheels
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
Navigating your early career
Things like knowing what role to be in a company, when to quit a job, when and set out for another new adventure?
My favorite product management templates
1-pagers, strategy, GTM, and more
How today's fastest-growing B2B businesses turned their early users into paying customers – Issue 36
They then worked with their power-users to figure out what the paid plans should be
How today's fastest-growing B2B startups turned their early users into paying customers
Part two in our series on B2B growth strategy
Autonomy vs. direction - Issue 35
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Winning at SEO
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Surviving reorgs, tactically and emotionally - Issue 32
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One team, one roadmap - Issue 30
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What to ask your users about Product-Market Fit
When I talk to my users, do you have any advice on what questions I should ask them to help me know if I’m on the right track?
Prioritizing conversion opportunities
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
Communicating bad news - Issue 26
Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business 3
Joining as the first product manager
And surviving it to tell the tale
Setting goals - Issue 23
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Setting goals
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Using your working time well - Issue 22
What tips do you have for managing your time and workload?
Strategy and tactics for increasing conversion
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This newsletter is growing up 🌱
tl;dr: I’m adding a paid subscription plan!
Leading your company through a pandemic - Issue 20
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Leading a PM team meeting - Issue 19
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Turning around an underperforming team - Issue 17
Hello and welcome to another edition of my weekly newsletter
Building a referrals program
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This Week #14: Transitioning from startup founder to product manager
Hello and welcome to another edition of my weekly newsletter 👋
This Week #13: Balancing outcome-thinking with design and technical requirements ⚖️
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This Week #12: Expanding your business internationally 🌏
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This Week #11: What should new PMs over-index on, and empowering product in a sales-driven org
With guest contributor Jackie Bavaro - author of Cracking the PM Interview
This Week #10: Keeping designers and engineers excited about metrics + Transitioning from DS to PM 🕺
With guest contributor Lex Roman - Growth Designer, Writer, Speaker
This Week #9: Breaking into growth, leading with influence, and (not) stepping on toes 🦶
With special guest contributor Brian Balfour – Founder and CEO of Reforge
What They'd Do Differently 🔮 Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business
Insights from today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
Maintaining Quality 🏅 Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business
Insights from today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
Accelerating Growth at Scale 🔥 Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business
Insights from today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
How To Know If You're Supply or Demand Constrained 🤹♂️ - Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business
Insights from today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 4: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Growing Initial Demand (plus a Bonus!)
Rare insights from today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 2: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Supply vs. Demand
Rare insights from 17 of today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
How to kickstart and scale a marketplace business
Insights from 17 of today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more
This Week #8: Splitting equity with late-joining co-founders, favorite roadmap templates, and small changes that improve your org
With special guest contributor Hunter Walk!
This Week #7: Effectively communicating about a failure to execs, managing founder expectations, and hiring a Director of PM
### Q: What are your thoughts on communicating failure, like missing our team’s set goals?
This Week #6: Cultivating good relationships with distributed co-workers, building trust to accelerate growth, and leveling up as a PM when you have extra time
With special guest contributor Hiten Shah!
This Week #5: Overcoming impostor syndrome, introducing growth to an org, and how to partner with your data scientist
What helped me most during that period was actually talking to a professional coach
This Week #4: Motivating engineers to hit deadlines, PM career ladders, and aligning with execs
I’ll tackle three reader questions each week (keeping your name and company anonymous) until you quit sending me questions
This Week #3: Finding product/market fit, interviewing for a Director of PM role, and structuring discussions with senior leaders
I’ll answer three questions each week (keeping your name and company anonymous) until you stop sending me questions
The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
An excerpt from a new essay about yearly and quarterly planning just published by First Round Review
This Week #2: Tackling the chicken-and-egg problem, building a growth team from scratch, and addressing overlap with PM peers 🤔
Thank you for all of the feedback and kind words so far
This Week #1: Must reads on growth, what PMs should focus on when joining a new team, and the value of an MBA
I was half-worried no one would take me up on the offer — instead, we now have a backlog of over two dozen intriguing questions
This Week #0: Advice on growth, product, and leadership
As you may have noticed it’s been relatively dormant for the past few months 😬
The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager 🤝
You owe your reports a better performance review
A Three-Step Framework For Solving Problems 👌
We work long and hard to design an amazing experience for travelers to discover fun local things to do with other travelers
How to get into product management
Figure out if this role is for you, how to make the move, and what skills you’ll need to build in order to be successful
What Buddhism Taught Me About Product Management
We think we’ll be happy when we finally get what we want (e.g
What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business
Create strong culture, stay laser-focused on problems, and set wildly ambitious goals
Where Great Product Roadmap Ideas Come From
The fifteen best ways to inspire new ideas, and three to avoid