Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

December 22, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: From generalist PM to platform PM, tips to be a better communicator, pros and cons of working in SaaS and e-commerce, tools to help PMs think bigger, and more

December 21, 2024

How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

December 19, 2024

The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter—2024 Edition

December 17, 2024

Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)

December 15, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: How long it takes to close a deal, feeling stuck in a job, leading a team mission session, transitioning from PM to solutions engineer, and more

December 14, 2024

Which companies accelerate PM careers most

December 10, 2024

Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more

December 08, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Fun games to do with remote teams, best tools for creating developer docs, who should write tickets, resources for learning about retention and churn, and more

December 07, 2024

How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)

December 05, 2024

How GiveDirectly increased donations by over $3 million/year through experimentation

December 03, 2024

Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures)

December 01, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Communication architectures for remote teams, how to add AI note takers to your workflows, when to exercise ISOs, using the latest tools at work, and more

November 30, 2024

Lenny’s Newsletter holiday gift guide 2024

November 26, 2024

The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)

November 24, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Automating customer support, nailing your product overview video, getting deadline estimates from teams in a healthy way, soft skills as you get promoted, and more

November 23, 2024

Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

November 21, 2024

How to become a supermanager with AI

November 19, 2024

Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

November 17, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Managing a goal change, thoughts on professional resume writers, pros and cons of the RICE framework, dividing product ownership into different teams, and more

November 16, 2024

Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)

November 14, 2024

Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

November 12, 2024

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute)

November 10, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Staying productive while going through personal difficulties, doing due diligence on potential co-founders, favorite UX prototyping tools, and more

November 09, 2024

Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify)

November 07, 2024

On being funny at work

November 05, 2024

Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur)

November 03, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Working with a non-technical founder, the pros and cons of a paid-trial interview process, big vs. boutique law firms, streamlining newsletter subscriptions, and more

November 02, 2024

4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google

October 31, 2024

Five proven prompt engineering techniques (and a few more-advanced tactics)

October 29, 2024

Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

October 27, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Codifying a CEO’s product principles, explaining entrepreneurial experience on your resume, building an in-house upskilling program for PMs, an advisor’s hourly rate, and more

October 26, 2024

How much do U.S. product managers really make?

October 22, 2024

How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author)

October 20, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Making time to work on nonessential features, the role of principal product manager, doing B2B product surveys, transitioning from startup to enterprise product dev, and more

October 19, 2024

Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)

October 17, 2024

Why no productivity hack will solve your overwhelm

October 15, 2024

Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)

October 13, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Using LLMs in your SaaS app, tips for the first marketing hire at an early-stage startup, upskilling on content writing, the best downgrading experience you’ve seen, and more

October 12, 2024

Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

October 10, 2024

Why cash is king

October 08, 2024

Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)

October 06, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Learning how to delegate, structuring a product discovery process, joining a competitor, automating analysis of user requests, and more

October 05, 2024

Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)

October 03, 2024

A PM’s guide to influence

October 01, 2024

How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge)

September 29, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite tools for monitoring in-app activity, dealing with fake accounts, the difference between product management and product ops, being moved into a different role, and more

September 28, 2024

You don’t need to be a well-run company to win: Surprising lessons in product leadership and AI strategy | Tamar Yehoshua (President at Glean, ex-CPO at Slack, VP at Google, VP at Amazon)

September 26, 2024

State of the product job market, part 2

September 24, 2024

Get Perplexity Pro free for 1 year

September 23, 2024

Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)

September 22, 2024

Community Wisdom: 200th issue + Convincing leadership to invest in UX, tips for managing your calendar, managing reports at different skill levels, pitching new product ideas, and more

September 21, 2024

Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)

September 19, 2024

Raising a seed round 101

September 17, 2024

The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway)

September 15, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Improving internal communication, working on retention, increasing your odds of getting promoted, when to do SOC 2 compliance, and more

September 14, 2024

Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)

September 12, 2024

How to communicate tradeoffs so leaders will listen

September 10, 2024

How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)

September 08, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Thoughts on PG’s Founder Mode essay, going from manager back to IC, sunsetting a product, 30-60-90-day new job plan, and more

September 07, 2024

The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)

September 05, 2024

The Subscription Value Loop: A framework for growing consumer subscription businesses

September 03, 2024

Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)

September 01, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Product coaching, rebuilding trust with your manager, managing up, balancing the needs of different sets of customers, and more

August 31, 2024

Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work

August 27, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Addressing bad leadership, succeeding as an introvert PM, measuring the performance of a product org, building confidence in your own product, and more

August 25, 2024

How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

August 25, 2024

Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)

August 22, 2024

Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world

August 20, 2024

Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)

August 18, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Coping with burnout, handling too much scope, prioritizing internal tools, including a failed startup on your resume, and more

August 17, 2024

Summary: April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process

August 13, 2024

Summary: AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)

August 13, 2024

Summary: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

August 13, 2024

Time management techniques that actually work

August 13, 2024

Summary: The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)

August 12, 2024

Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)

August 11, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Teaching yourself product management, creating a strategy for a group of products, building a free side product as a growth strategy, the best AI tools for note-taking, and more

August 10, 2024

How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)

August 08, 2024

Ethan Smith: The power of internal linking for SEO

August 06, 2024

On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to)

August 06, 2024

Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)

August 04, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: What PMs should know about AI/ML products, underappreciated PM skills, collaborating with a product marketer, tracking developer capacity, and more

August 03, 2024

How should you monetize your AI features?

July 30, 2024

Announcing the Lenny & Friends Summit 🙌

July 29, 2024

The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)

July 28, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Finding work to do as a new PM, learning SQL, involving a designer in the roadmap process, and more

July 27, 2024

5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)

July 25, 2024

New data on the product job market

July 23, 2024

What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)

July 21, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Managing knowledge drain from departed employees, turning around a team, handling unexpected leadership asks, navigating GDPR compliance, your first product hire, and more

July 20, 2024

Taking the week off

July 16, 2024

Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)

July 14, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Doing a complete app redesign, building a retention strategy, ideal environments for product management growth, setting yourself up for recruitment success, and more

July 13, 2024

Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)

July 11, 2024

How close is AI to replacing product managers?

July 09, 2024

Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)

July 07, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: How PMs should participate in daily standups, defining effective KPIs for early-stage products, favorite talks from Figma’s Config conference, and more

July 06, 2024

Counterintuitive advice for building AI products

July 02, 2024

Meet your Lenny’s Newsletter Fellows ✨

July 01, 2024

Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

June 30, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: The best product roadmap tools, dealing with ADHD as a product manager, tips for building product toolkits, using interactive demo platforms for self-onboarding, and more

June 29, 2024

The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host)

June 27, 2024

General management, functional, and hybrid models: Which org design works best for top companies?

June 25, 2024

Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)

June 23, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: PickWhat user segments to focus on, analyzing user feedback from Intercom-like platforms, communicating career aspirations without threatening my manager’s position, and much more

June 22, 2024

When and how to run a billboard campaign

June 18, 2024

Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)

June 16, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Staying impartial when you don’t like a product, marketing-led vs. founder-led sales, dealing with an intimidating superior, and more

June 15, 2024

The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)

June 13, 2024

How to use Perplexity in your PM work

June 11, 2024

Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)

June 09, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Your career after becoming a parent, finding the right GTM strategy, aligning product and sales, tools to quickly build a landing page, advice for a new-grad PM, and more

June 08, 2024

In defense of feature team product managers

June 04, 2024

Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)

June 02, 2024

The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon (author of The Challenger Sale and The JOLT Effect)

May 30, 2024

Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)

May 26, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: How often you should talk to customers, what to expect from an MBA, B2E product management, template for sales call feedback, and more

May 25, 2024

On saying no

May 21, 2024

Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack)

May 19, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite prioritization frameworks, companies rescinding offers, fiction book recommendations, ideas for celebrating employee anniversaries, getting into fintech, and more

May 18, 2024

Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)

May 16, 2024

The art of the pivot, part 2: How, why, and when to pivot

May 14, 2024

A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)

May 12, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Why LinkedIn added games, repairing a stakeholder relationship, working with a difficult VP of Revenue, companies with great PMF and bad execution, and more

May 11, 2024

The art of the pivot, part 1: The definitive list of successful pivots

May 07, 2024

Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

May 05, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Overcoming anxiety in front of large groups, what to optimize for in a career, involving designers in planning, using work laptop for side project, and more

May 04, 2024

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)

May 02, 2024

How Perplexity builds product

April 30, 2024

Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

April 28, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite AI courses for PMs, tools for recording and summarizing meetings, dealing with a patronizing colleague, KPIs for a product lead aiming for a Head of Product role, more

April 27, 2024

How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)

April 25, 2024

How to make an impact in your first 90 days

April 23, 2024

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

April 21, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Demonstrating leadership skills in an interview, dealing with criticism from a stakeholder, boosting collaboration with a co-founder, handling unsuccessful A/B tests, and more

April 20, 2024

Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Pivoting, resilience, avoiding tar pit ideas, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

April 18, 2024

How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have

April 16, 2024

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

April 14, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting engineering help to build an MVP, navigating product-area boundary issues, creating an empowering environment for devs, examples of great onboarding, and more

April 13, 2024

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

April 11, 2024

How AI will impact product management

April 09, 2024

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

April 07, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Explaining a short job tenure, who should own technical documentation, managing data requests, best practices for app tutorials, and more

April 06, 2024

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)

April 04, 2024

The secret to Duolingo’s growth

April 02, 2024

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

March 31, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite user research tools, scaling a B2B SaaS startup, effective product positioning, equity crowdfunding, integrating networking into a job search, and more

March 30, 2024

Become a more technical product manager

March 26, 2024

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

March 24, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Identifying good product managers, improving your business skills, bridging the divide between Product and Go-to-Market, giving actionable design feedback, and more

March 23, 2024

The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)

March 21, 2024

The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

March 17, 2024

My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons—plus a giveaway!

March 12, 2024

Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

March 10, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Dealing with lack of recognition, implementing modern product processes in non-tech orgs, running a bug bounty program, when to do competitive analysis, and more

March 09, 2024

Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

March 07, 2024

How to successfully launch on Product Hunt (when it’s right for your startup)

March 05, 2024

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

March 03, 2024

Community Wisdom: Ideas for celebrating big launches, balancing large and small bets, handling unexpected compensation demands, making your video look better, and more

March 02, 2024

How to learn the most about a candidate from a single interview question

February 27, 2024

How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)

February 25, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Dealing with an undermining manager, skill set for an AI PM, best practices for triaging support tickets, finding a North Star metric, and more

February 25, 2024

How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

February 22, 2024

You should be playing with GPTs at work

February 20, 2024

Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

February 18, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Calculating your hourly rate as a consultant, creating a strategy for a multi-part product, questions to ask during a reference check, strategies for discovery pre-PMF, and more

February 17, 2024

The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay

February 13, 2024

Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)

February 11, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Product development in a big company, collaboration between sales and product teams, liquidity in a digital product marketplace, improving team alignment, and more

February 10, 2024

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

February 08, 2024

My favorite decision-making frameworks

February 06, 2024

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)

February 04, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Writing detailed PRDs, how to think more clearly, preparing your team for parental leave, getting insights from user session recordings, and more

February 03, 2024

Adding a work trial to your interview process

January 30, 2024

Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

January 28, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting your first Product Manager title, recommendations for a family live-abroad experience, getting better at product strategy, and more

January 27, 2024

Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market

January 25, 2024

How Gong builds product

January 23, 2024

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

January 21, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Whether you need to post on LinkedIn to be a successful PM, picking an analytics tool for an early-stage startup, keeping track of ideas and feedback, and more

January 20, 2024

The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)

January 18, 2024

How to describe your business as an equation

January 16, 2024

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

January 14, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting better at estimation, increasing visibility with executives, overcoming analysis paralysis, managing Slack overload, navigating an internal transfer, and more

January 13, 2024

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

January 11, 2024

What to do if your product isn’t taking off

January 09, 2024

The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

January 07, 2024

🧠 Community Wisdom: How to identify good PM candidates, building a 0-1 product inside a company, managing no-shows in user interviews, integrating OKRs with a flexible product roadmap, and more

January 06, 2024

The UX Research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

January 04, 2024

Inspiration for the year ahead

January 02, 2024

Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

December 29, 2023

The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

December 27, 2023

Taking the week off (and thank you!)

December 26, 2023

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

December 21, 2023

First-principles thinking

December 19, 2023

Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

December 17, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Finding your primary growth channel, employee titles at pre-seed, becoming more customer-focused, how much is too much process, and more

December 16, 2023

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)

December 15, 2023

Failure

December 13, 2023

The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2023

December 12, 2023

Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott

December 10, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Lenny + Monetizing a Santa Claus app, losing trust in a coworker, managing an idea backlog, transitioning into a new head of product role, and more

December 09, 2023

The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)

December 07, 2023

Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn

December 05, 2023

Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)

December 03, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Sending a sprint newsletter to stakeholders, favorite resources for building 0-1, managing engineers as a non-technical PM, design timelines in quarterly planning, and much more

December 02, 2023

The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)

December 01, 2023

My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests

November 29, 2023

Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business

November 28, 2023

Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

November 26, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Live AMA with Andy Johns + The cyclic nature of product org design, managing expectations for ship dates, resources for learning prompt engineering, and much more

November 25, 2023

A new-parent gift guide for product managers

November 21, 2023

Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)

November 19, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Co-founder matching program + Pricing strategies for new features in a product, balancing UX and functionality, managing non-ICP users in a freemium business model, and much more

November 18, 2023

The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

November 16, 2023

When they hired their first PM

November 14, 2023

Brian Chesky’s contrarian approach to product, growth, and leadership

November 12, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma) + How much scope is too much, choosing a mentor, organizing internal feedback, operational readiness, and much more

November 11, 2023

Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)

November 09, 2023

Introducing DRICE: A modern prioritization framework

November 07, 2023

Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)

November 05, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Having willingness-to-pay conversations, prioritizing customer problems, hiring tips for product designers, handling co-founder disagreements, and more

November 04, 2023

Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)

November 02, 2023

Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it

October 31, 2023

Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

October 29, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Andy Johns + Calculating TAM for a startup in a new category, coping with job search rejections, shifting from output to an outcome-focused roadmap, and much more

October 27, 2023

What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)

October 26, 2023

Scaling your B2B growth engine

October 24, 2023

A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)

October 22, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Assessing a PM’s writing skills, advice for first-time mentees and mentors, building a sales pipeline, creating your own PM role at a startup, and more

October 21, 2023

Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo)

October 19, 2023

How to build a killer sales pitch

October 17, 2023

Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)

October 15, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting your product strategy approved, scoping eng time, product strategy templates, onboarding, and more

October 14, 2023

How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)

October 12, 2023

Skipping newsletter today

October 10, 2023

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)

October 08, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Gustaf Alströmer (Group Partner at YC) + Stopping scope creep, continuous discovery in B2B, opportunity solution trees, activation vs. retention, and much more

October 06, 2023

Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life

October 05, 2023

Hiring your early team

October 03, 2023

What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)

October 01, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Dan Hockenmaier + Facilitating a roadmap session, structuring product teams, navigating an acquisition, companies not needing PMs anymore, and much more

September 29, 2023

Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)

September 28, 2023

How Linear builds product

September 26, 2023

How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)

September 24, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Mentoring program applications now open + Managing tension with engineering team, becoming a more technical PM, dealing with an ineffective manager, and much more

September 22, 2023

Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)

September 21, 2023

The Magic Loop

September 19, 2023

How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)

September 17, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Tracking accomplishments, addressing engineering delays, finding a high-compensation role, dealing with a complainer, and much more

September 15, 2023

Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)

September 14, 2023

A guide for finding product-market fit

September 12, 2023

500,000

September 11, 2023

When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)

September 10, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Best advice for 0-1 products, designing effective dashboards, managing your mental health, user stories in PRDs, and much more

September 08, 2023

An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)

September 07, 2023

How to win your first 10 B2B customers

September 05, 2023

Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)

September 03, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Claire Hughes Johnson + Accountability in OKRs, building problem-solving skills, internal vs. external PM, strategies for landing a job at a startup, and much more

September 01, 2023

How to identify your ideal customer profile (ICP)

August 29, 2023

An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)

August 27, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Handling work overload, how can PMs showcase their work, the value of a scrum master, hiring an agency vs. hiring a full-time employee, and much more

August 25, 2023

The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)

August 24, 2023

How to hire your first growth team

August 22, 2023

Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube)

August 20, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Having effective 1:1s, preparing for PTO, balancing qualitative and quantitative analysis, creating a resume, and much more

August 18, 2023

How to validate your B2B startup idea

August 15, 2023

The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)

August 13, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Interview questions for designers, engineering updates in all-hands meetings, considering a downgrade in job title, and much more

August 11, 2023

Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI)

August 10, 2023

How the most successful B2B startups came up with their original idea

August 08, 2023

Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)

August 06, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Instilling a mindset of speed, evaluating performance of a new employee, adjusting pricing for existing users, aligning squad roadmaps, and much more

August 04, 2023

What is good free-to-paid conversion

August 01, 2023

How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)

July 30, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Articulating a vision for a new product, PMing at early-stage vs. later startups, approaching strangers for customer research, flexibility vs. role boundaries, and more

July 28, 2023

The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)

July 27, 2023

How Shopify builds product

July 25, 2023

The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

July 23, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: AMA with Josh Miller from Arc, being a PM in a sales-led org, collecting feedback from non-tech-savvy customers, a controversial take on design education, and much more

July 21, 2023

How today’s top consumer brands measure marketing’s impact

July 18, 2023

LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

July 16, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Tech education for non-tech PMs, unconventional startup hierarchies, framing failed startup experience in an interview, cost reduction vs. product development, and much more

July 14, 2023

M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)

July 13, 2023

How Snowflake builds product

July 11, 2023

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

July 09, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: Maintaining performance during a personal crisis, pitching your product to leadership, effective tools for product walkthroughs, interviewing, and much more

July 07, 2023

How to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market)

July 04, 2023

Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)

July 02, 2023

🧠 Community Wisdom: The demise of the PM role at Airbnb, how transparent to be with your managers, PM role after product-market fit, what growth engineering is, and much more

June 30, 2023