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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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Dec. 11, 2022

How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ric…

Camille Ricketts began her career in journalism, at the Wall Street Journal , in 2006. In 2010 she joined Tesla, where she worked in communications alongside Elon Musk. She transitioned into marketing and became the Head of C...

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Dec. 8, 2022

The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innov…

Madhavan Ramanujam is a senior partner at Simon-Kucher, where he works with tier-one tech companies like Uber, Asana, and LinkedIn to help them develop their pricing and monetization strategies. He’s also the author of the mo...

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Dec. 4, 2022

How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)

Sahil Mansuri is the CEO of Bravado, the world’s largest online sales community. Sahil is passionate about sales, and his experience dates all the way back to 2008, working for Obama’s presidential campaign. During his time a...

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Dec. 1, 2022

The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphite, a boutique growth agency that’s helped companies like MasterClass, Thumbtack, Robinhood, Medium, and Honey develop and execute their SEO strategies. SEO is one of the least-understood lever...

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Nov. 27, 2022

How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Prod…

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, which she published in 2021. Alongside her freelance ...

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Nov. 20, 2022

What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, A…

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 Smile. He was also Director of Product Managemen...

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Nov. 17, 2022

Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Oros…

Gergely Orosz writes the #1 technology newsletter at Substack, called The Pragmatic Engineer. He started his career as a software developer in the U.K., spent three years at Skype, and followed that role with four years as an...

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Nov. 13, 2022

An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardim…

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 Business & Product Officer at The Atlantic, and b...

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Nov. 10, 2022

How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovat…

Matt Mochary, CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, and ma...

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Nov. 6, 2022

How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of …

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 experience building and scaling high-performing p...

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Nov. 3, 2022

Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ips…

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, Opendoor, Postmates, Nextdoor, and many other...

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Oct. 30, 2022

Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

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 selling to Substack. Before that, he spent over...

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Oct. 27, 2022

Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Gree…

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 Miro, where she helped create an entirely new sof...

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Oct. 23, 2022

How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Ref…

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 Instacart, was a GM at Zynga, and also served a...

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Oct. 20, 2022

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Face…

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 Director of Product at Lyft. In today’s …

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Oct. 16, 2022

Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, Pr…

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 300,000 members across the world. In today’s podcast, Ja...

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Oct. 13, 2022

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, L…

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 Reforge and an advisor to numerous companies on gro...

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Oct. 9, 2022

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenm…

Dan Hockenmaier is an expert on marketplace strategy and growth. He was previously the Director of Growth at Thumbtack as well as a partner at Reforge, where he co-created the monetization track. Currently, he is the Head of ...

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