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May 2, 2024

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “T…

Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, a decision-making expert, and a special partner at First Round Capital. She is the author of Thinking in Bets (a national bestseller) and Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Wa...

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April 28, 2024

Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon,…

Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his co...

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April 25, 2024

How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanfo…

Carole Robin spent over 20 years teaching the Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics, affectionately known as “Touchy Feely.” After leaving Stanford, she founded a nonprofit called Leaders in Tech,...

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April 21, 2024

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | …

Mihika Kapoor is a design-engineer-PM hybrid at Figma, where she was an early PM on FigJam and is now spearheading development on a new product at the company that’s coming out this June. She’s known as the go-to person at …

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April 18, 2024

Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Pivoting, resilience, avoiding tar p…

Dalton Caldwell is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net . During his time at YC, …

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April 14, 2024

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSant…

David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world. They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management produ...

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April 11, 2024

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Roun…

Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led …

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April 7, 2024

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, …

Claire Vo is the chief product officer at LaunchDarkly and the founder of ChatPRD, likely the most popular PM-specific AI product out there. Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizel...

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April 4, 2024

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah…

Dharmesh Shah is the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot (currently valued at $30 billion) and one of the most fascinating founders I’ve ever met. Dharmesh is the keeper of HubSpot’s Culture Code, built ChatSpot (an AI chatbot buil...

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March 31, 2024

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (profe…

Matt Abrahams is a renowned communication expert, with decades of teaching, coaching, and consulting experience. At Stanford University, he teaches a business school class on strategic communication. Beyond academia, he’s a s...

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March 24, 2024

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy…

Kunal Shah is one of the most well-known and admired product leaders in India. He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, incl...

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March 21, 2024

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

Emilie Gerber is the founder and CEO of Six Eastern , a top PR agency that’s worked with over 100 tech companies, from stealth startups to publicly traded companies. Before starting her own firm, she worked at Uber, where she...

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March 17, 2024

The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammar…

Noam Lovinsky has had a distinguished career in product, leaving an indelible mark at Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack, and currently as the chief product officer at Grammarly. At Facebook, Noam helped establish the New Product E...

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March 10, 2024

Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Grou…

Marty Cagan is a luminary in the world of product. He’s the author of two of the most foundational books for product teams and product leaders ( Inspired and Empowered ), he’s the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (one …

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March 7, 2024

Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (G…

Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok. Prior to TikTok, Ray spent six years at Google helping scale Google Shopping globally. In our conversation, we discuss:...

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March 3, 2024

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Andrew Bosworth —or Boz, as most people know him—is the chief technology officer at Meta and head of Reality Labs, the company’s augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) organization, which he created in 2017. Boz joined Fac...

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Feb. 25, 2024

How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal…

Donna Lichaw is an internationally sought-after executive coach, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. She helps visionary founders, CEOs, and executive teams level up their leadership and scale their impact while staying...

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Feb. 22, 2024

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

Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix. Before Netflix, Elizabeth wa...

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Feb. 18, 2024

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

Jason Lemkin created and runs SaaStr, the world’s largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90 million venture capital firm specializing in early-stage enterprise investments. He...

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Feb. 11, 2024

Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors …

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the authors of best-selling books Sprint and Make Time . They have helped more than 300 teams design new products and bring them to market, including those at YouTube, Gusto, One Medical Group...

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Feb. 8, 2024

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

Logan Kilpatrick leads developer relations at OpenAI, supporting developers building with the OpenAI API and ChatGPT. He is also on the board of directors at NumFOCUS, the nonprofit organization that supports open source proj...

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Feb. 4, 2024

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and s…

Megan Cook is the head of product for Atlassian’s Jira software, which is used by 75% of Fortune 500 companies, has over 125,000 customers globally, over 15 different products, and is by far the most popular project managemen...

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Jan. 28, 2024

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

Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery , a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having perso...

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Jan. 25, 2024

Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dom…

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor, widely known for his seminal book Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers , which many consider the most important book ever wri...

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