Episode Summaries
Nov. 1, 2023
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. He’s also a fellow Airbnb alumnus along with Lenny and started the original Airbnb growth team. If I drill down what makes companies fail,…
Oct. 26, 2023
Summary | Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)
Gustav Söderström is the Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Spotify. He is responsible for Spotify’s global product and technology strategy, overseeing the product, design, data, and engineering teams. Prior t…
Oct. 19, 2023
Summary: AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
Marily Nika is an AI Product Lead at Meta and previously worked at Google’s Assistant and AR/VR teams. She teaches among the most popular courses on AI and Product Management and also runs an AI Product bootcamp as part of the AI Product A…
Oct. 13, 2023
Summary: Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
Janna Bastow is a former product manager and is 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. Like many product managers, Janna…
Sept. 4, 2023
Summary: Ultimate Guide to SEO with Ethan Smith (Graphite)
The word on the street is that SEO seems like a dark art. Ethan Smith is here to demystify all things SEO—what it is, and how and when to do it. He’s the CEO of Graphite, an SEO and growth agency. Ethan’s background Shopping.…
Aug. 12, 2023
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 positioning. She spent 25 years leading marketing, product, and sales teams and is now an independent consultan…
Aug. 7, 2023
Summary: Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, LNO framework, 3 levels of product work, and prioritization
Shreyas Doshi has managed product at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and Stripe—where he joined as its fourth product manager, later becoming Stripe’s first PM manager and helping define and grow its PM function from about 5 to more than 50 pe…
Aug. 5, 2023
Summary: The art and science of pricing with Madhavan Ramanujam
Madhavan Ramanujam is a senior partner at Simon-Kucher, leading pricing strategy consultants, and works with Uber, Asana, and LinkedIn to help them develop their pricing and monetization strategies. Madhavan studied quantitative modeling at Stanf…
Aug. 4, 2023
Summary: What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
Ian McAllister is the Senior Director of Product for Vehicles at Uber. Previously he was Director of PM at Airbnb, where he worked with Lenny and spent a decade creating and leading Amazon Smile. He studied finance and economics, worked on marketi…
Aug. 3, 2023
Summary: The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
Shishir Mehrotra is the co-founder and CEO of Coda, and formerly head of product and engineering at YouTube. In this episode, he shares his insights on growth strategy, how he evaluates talent, a peek at his upcoming book The Rituals of Great Team…
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