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Dec. 19, 2024

How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and H…

Farhan Thawar is the head of engineering at Shopify, where he oversees more than 1,000 engineers and a platform that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. Before Shopify, he was VP of engineering at Pivotal Labs and Xtreme ...

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Dec. 15, 2024

Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM…

Jackson Shuttleworth is a Group PM at Duolingo, where he leads the retention team and the powerful streak feature. The streak feature, which gamifies consecutive days of learning, has been Duolingo’s most important and innova...

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Dec. 8, 2024

Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategie…

Seth Godin is a legend. He’s a marketer, teacher, entrepreneur, and author of more than 20 books, including Purple Cow , Permission Marketing , and Linchpin . He also writes one of the most popular and longest-running blogs i...

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Dec. 5, 2024

How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-found…

Jonathan Lowenhar is the co-founder of Enjoy The Work, an executive coaching firm that helps founders become great CEOs. Over the past decade, Enjoy The Work has supported over 165 founders on their journey to becoming better...

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Dec. 1, 2024

Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Res…

Michael Margolis has been a UX research partner at Google Ventures (GV) for nearly 15 years. He has developed a unique approach to helping startups identify their “bullseye customer”—the specific subset of their target market...

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Nov. 24, 2024

The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJE…

Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their …

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Nov. 21, 2024

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

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a browser-based coding environment that allows anyone to write and deploy code. Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-growing developer communities in ...

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Nov. 17, 2024

Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg …

Raaz Herzberg is the chief marketing officer and VP of product strategy at Wiz. Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. It als...

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Nov. 14, 2024

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

Aman Khan is Director of Product at Arize AI, an observability company for AI engineers at companies like Uber, Instacart, and Discord. Previously he was an AI Product Manager at Spotify on the ML Platform team, enabling hund...

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Nov. 10, 2024

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owne…

Melissa Perri is the founder of Product Institute, author of Escaping the Build Trap , and host of the Product Thinking Podcast. She has worked with startups, Fortune 50 companies, and everything in between to help them build...

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Nov. 7, 2024

Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for ch…

Archie Abrams is the VP of Product and Head of Growth at Shopify, where he leads a 600+ person growth org across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and growth marketing. Shopify powers over 10% of e-commerce in the Unit...

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Nov. 3, 2024

Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alis…

Alistair Croll is the co-author of the best-selling book Lean Analytics and a longtime product manager, entrepreneur, and startup advisor. He was also instrumental in my starting a company, funding it, and helping us exit to ...

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Oct. 31, 2024

4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former P…

Shreyas Doshi is a former product leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. He’s now a full-time advisor and coach to founders and executives. Shreyas is known for his incredibly insightful writing on products, which has ...

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Oct. 27, 2024

Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zucke…

Naomi Gleit is head of product at Meta, joined as employee #29, and is the longest-serving executive at Meta other than Mark Zuckerberg. She’s been at the center of some of the company’s most foundational products, including ...

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Oct. 20, 2024

How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos …

Jessica Hische is a lettering artist and New York Times bestselling author based in Oakland, California. She specializes in typographical work for logos, film, books, and other commercial applications. Her clients include Wes...

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Oct. 17, 2024

Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing …

Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a leading B2B cybersecurity company. She previously spent 11 years at LiveRamp, where she was the President and Head of Product and Platforms leading product development an...

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Oct. 13, 2024

Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome …

Tristan de Montebello is the co-creator of Ultraspeaking, the most effective method I’ve come across for rapidly improving communication and presentation skills. In 2017, Tristan became the fastest person ever to reach the fi...

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Oct. 10, 2024

Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager…

Raiza Martin is a senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, where she leads the team behind NotebookLM, an AI-powered research tool that includes a delightful podcast-on-demand feature called “Audio Overviews.” NotebookLM...

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Oct. 6, 2024

Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’…

JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadershi...

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Oct. 3, 2024

Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime m…

Alex Komoroske is a strategic leader who merges the practice, theory, and mindset necessary to tackle complex problems. He spent 13 years at Google, where he worked on Search and DoubleClick and led Chrome’s Open Web Platform...

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Sept. 29, 2024

How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | B…

Benjamin Lauzier has been building and scaling marketplaces for almost 15 years. He was the VP of product and growth at Thumbtack, where he rebuilt the product team and Thumbtack’s growth levers, re-architected their revenue ...

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Sept. 26, 2024

You don’t need to be a well-run company to win: Surprising lessons in…

Tamar Yehoshua is the president of product and technology at Glean. Prior to joining Glean, Tamar was chief product officer at Slack, where she led product, design, and research as the company scaled, including a 10x increase...

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Sept. 22, 2024

Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contrib…

Tal Raviv is a product manager at Riverside, where he joined as its first PM. Over his 12-year career as an individual contributor, Tal has been an early PM at Patreon, AppsFlyer, and Wix, working in consumer growth, develope...

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Sept. 19, 2024

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

Eli Schwartz is a leading SEO consultant and the author of Product-Led SEO. He has worked with industry giants like Zapier, Tinder, Coinbase, Quora, LinkedIn, and WordPress to build and execute global SEO strategies that sign...

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