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April 6, 2023

Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and th…

Brought to you by Wealthfront —Make smarter stock investments | Lenny’s Job Board —Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Nikita Miller is a product leader, an...

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April 2, 2023

The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)

Brought to you by Amplitude —Build better products | Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Hila Qu is an Executive in Residence at Reforge as …

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March 30, 2023

Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Ai…

Brought to you by Amplitude —Build better products | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments | Ahrefs —Improve your website's SEO for free — Casey Winters is a longtime and legendary advisor and operator. He’s worked with c...

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March 26, 2023

Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind South…

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Rows —The spreadsheet where data comes to life | Lenny’s Job Board —Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs. — Kevin Aluwi is the co-founder and …

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March 23, 2023

Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision B…

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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 …

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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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