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March 19, 2023

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company buil…

Brought to you by Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | Linear —The new standard for modern software development — Josh Miller is the CEO and co-founder of The Browser ...

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March 16, 2023

The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)

Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise — Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanfo...

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March 12, 2023

Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram a…

Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | LMNT —Zero-sugar hydration — Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan are founders, angel investors, and produ...

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March 9, 2023

Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding …

Brought to you by Public —Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments | Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise — Laura Schaffer is the brand-new VP of Growth at Amplitude. Prio...

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March 5, 2023

Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)

Brought to you by Linear —The new standard for modern software development | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision. — Claire Hughes Johnson is the former COO at Str...

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March 2, 2023

Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Comb…

Brought to you by Linear —The new standard for modern software development. | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments. | Pando —Always-on employee progression. — Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he...

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Feb. 26, 2023

Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)

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Feb. 23, 2023

An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam

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Feb. 19, 2023

10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (Prof…

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Feb. 16, 2023

Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)

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Feb. 12, 2023

Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)

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Feb. 9, 2023

Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

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Feb. 5, 2023

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

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Feb. 2, 2023

How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool,…

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Jan. 29, 2023

Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner

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Jan. 26, 2023

An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of…

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Jan. 19, 2023

Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, …

Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching platform designed to help people reach their professional goals. In ...

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Jan. 15, 2023

What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutle…

John Cutler writes the popular and beloved product newsletter The Beautiful Mess. For many years, he was a Product Evangelist at Amplitude, which led him to meeting and working with a large number of product teams around the ...

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Jan. 12, 2023

How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)

Naomi Ionita is a Partner at the venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures. She started her career in engineering in 2002, shifted to product in 2006, and built product growth and monetization teams starting over a decade ago as o...

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Jan. 8, 2023

An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of …

Yuhki Yamashita is Chief Product Officer at Figma. Prior to Figma, he was Head of Design of Uber’s New Mobility efforts, and before that a product manager at Google and Microsoft. Adding to his impressive resume, Yuhki also t...

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Jan. 5, 2023

Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Sl…

Jules Walter is a product leader at YouTube and co-founder of both the Black Product Managers Network and Codepath.org. Previously, he led monetization and mobile growth teams at Slack. He’s also a very well-known leader in t...

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Dec. 29, 2022

Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year

If you ever wanted to distill 3,310 hours of knowledge into 60 minutes, then this episode is for you. For the last 6 months, Lenny’s Podcast has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is now a top 10 …

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Dec. 18, 2022

Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Weal…

Chris Hutchins recently left his position as Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront to focus full-time on his podcast, All the Hacks . If you’re thinking about starting your own podcast or are simply interested in the pr...

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Dec. 15, 2022

Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)

Pete Kazanjy is the author of Founding Sales: The Early Stage Go-to-Market Handbook and the founder of Modern Sales Pros, an invite-only peer learning community focused on sales operations and sales leadership. He’s also the ...

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