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Lenny's Podcast

Lenny's Podcast

Business

by Lenny Rachitsky

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

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Episodes (330)

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The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

Mar 1, 20261h 17m
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AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel

Feb 26, 20261h 27m
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Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny

Feb 19, 20261h 27m
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Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)

Feb 15, 20261h 14m
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“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

Feb 12, 20261h 19m
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The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)

Feb 8, 20261h 42m
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A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy

Feb 1, 20261h 31m
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Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

Jan 29, 20261h 44m
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5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)

Jan 25, 20261h 46m
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The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

Jan 18, 20261h 15m
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How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin

Jan 15, 20261h 26m
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Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon

Jan 11, 20261h 26m
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The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale

Jan 4, 20261h 31m
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We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

Jan 1, 20261h 42m
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10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)

Dec 28, 20251h 36m
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The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff

Dec 21, 20251h 32m
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The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)

Dec 18, 20251h 31m
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Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)

Dec 14, 20251h 25m
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The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

Dec 7, 20251h 10m
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Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)

Dec 4, 20251h 7m
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What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)

Nov 30, 20251h 26m
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A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett

Nov 23, 20251h 45m
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Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

Nov 20, 20251h 30m
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The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Nov 16, 20251h 19m
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“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)

Nov 13, 20251h 53m
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"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel

Nov 9, 20251h 21m
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The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

Nov 2, 20251h 6m
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How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna

Oct 26, 20251h 26m
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Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

Oct 23, 20251h 22m
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How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

Oct 19, 20251h 7m
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Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field

Oct 16, 20251h 26m
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Inside Google's AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)

Oct 10, 20251h 21m
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First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege

Oct 9, 20251h 24m
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

Oct 5, 20251h 25m
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A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)

Sep 28, 20251h 24m
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Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)

Sep 25, 20251h 46m
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From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)

Sep 21, 20251h 36m
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Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)

Sep 18, 20251h 6m
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The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

Sep 14, 20251h 11m
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$46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)

Sep 11, 20251h 37m
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How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue

Sep 7, 20251h 18m
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How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)

Aug 31, 20251h 40m
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How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

Aug 28, 202557m
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Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)

Aug 24, 20251h 9m
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How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)

Aug 21, 20251h 23m
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Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)

Aug 17, 20251h 29m
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The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

Aug 14, 20251h 32m
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Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)

Aug 9, 20251h 35m
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Brian Chesky's secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world's first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA)

Aug 3, 20251h 19m
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He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more

Jul 31, 20251h 28m
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Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

Jul 27, 20251h 11m
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Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann

Jul 20, 20251h 14m
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

Jul 17, 20251h 34m
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Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)

Jul 13, 20251h 41m
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Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

Jul 6, 20251h 31m
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I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)

Jul 3, 20251h 28m
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Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)

Jun 29, 20251h 22m
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

Jun 22, 20251h 55m
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

Jun 19, 20251h 37m
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How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)

Jun 15, 20251h 54m
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35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley

Jun 12, 20251h 41m
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How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios

Jun 8, 20251h 19m
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Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)

Jun 5, 20251h 6m
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Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Jun 1, 20251h 21m
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Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman

May 25, 20251h 14m
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Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)

May 22, 20251h 37m
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Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

May 18, 20251h 1m
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How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)

May 15, 20251h 10m
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How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

May 11, 20251h 37m
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How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)

May 8, 20251h 22m
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Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)

May 4, 20251h 32m
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The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

May 1, 20251h 11m
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

Apr 27, 20251h 32m
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Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥

Apr 22, 202547m
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Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO)

Apr 20, 20251h 14m
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Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)

Apr 13, 20251h 27m
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OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)

Apr 10, 20251h 31m
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Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

Apr 6, 20251h 33m
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A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)

Mar 30, 20251h 45m
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How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)

Mar 27, 20251h 25m
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Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)

Mar 23, 20251h 25m
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The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")

Mar 16, 20251h 17m
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Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)

Mar 13, 20251h 28m
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Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO)

Mar 9, 20251h 9m
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Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)

Mar 6, 20251h 12m
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The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic)

Mar 2, 20251h 34m
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An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)

Feb 27, 20251h 47m
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How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”)

Feb 23, 20251h 24m
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A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)

Feb 16, 20251h 23m
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OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic)

Feb 9, 20251h 14m
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Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)

Feb 2, 20251h 41m
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Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)

Jan 30, 20251h 21m
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An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga)

Jan 26, 20251h 47m
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10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)

Jan 19, 20251h 35m
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How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors)

Jan 16, 20251h 12m
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How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)

Jan 12, 20251h 19m
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Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Jan 9, 20251h 37m
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Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)

Jan 5, 20251h 23m
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Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO)

Jan 2, 202556m
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Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)

Dec 29, 20241h 21m
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Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

Dec 22, 202457m
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How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

Dec 19, 20241h 40m
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Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)

Dec 15, 20241h 28m
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Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more

Dec 8, 202445m
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How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)

Dec 5, 20241h 34m
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Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures)

Dec 1, 20241h 29m
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The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)

Nov 24, 20241h 16m
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Nov 21, 20241h 4m
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Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

Nov 17, 20241h 5m
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Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)

Nov 14, 20241h 17m
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute)

Nov 10, 20241h 24m
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Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify)

Nov 7, 20241h 17m
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Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur)

Nov 3, 20241h 15m
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4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google

Oct 31, 202445m
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Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

Oct 27, 20241h 38m
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How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author)

Oct 20, 20241h 21m
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Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)

Oct 17, 20241h 8m
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Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)

Oct 13, 20241h 56m
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Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

Oct 10, 202448m
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Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)

Oct 6, 20241h 18m
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Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)

Oct 3, 20241h 24m
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How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Sep 29, 20241h 24m
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Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack)

Sep 26, 20241h 17m
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Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)

Sep 22, 20241h 31m
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Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)

Sep 19, 20241h 55m
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The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway)

Sep 15, 20241h 23m
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Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)

Sep 12, 20241h 51m
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How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)

Sep 8, 20241h 9m
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The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)

Sep 5, 20241h 44m
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Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)

Sep 1, 20241h 37m
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How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

Aug 25, 20241h 38m
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Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)

Aug 22, 20241h 11m
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Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)

Aug 18, 20241h 28m
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Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)

Aug 11, 20242h 14m
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How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)

Aug 8, 20241h 18m
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Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)

Aug 4, 20241h 14m
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The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)

Jul 28, 20241h 42m
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5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)

Jul 25, 20241h 22m
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What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)

Jul 21, 20241h 24m
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Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)

Jul 14, 20241h 19m
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Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)

Jul 11, 20242h 35m
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Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)

Jul 7, 20241h 49m
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Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

Jun 30, 202448m
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The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host)

Jun 27, 20241h 24m
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Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)

Jun 23, 20241h 23m
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Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)

Jun 16, 20241h 54m
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The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)

Jun 13, 20241h 22m
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Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)

Jun 9, 20241h 22m
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Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)

Jun 2, 20241h 3m
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The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon (author of The Challenger Sale and The JOLT Effect)

May 30, 202456m
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Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)

May 26, 20241h 42m
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Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack)

May 19, 20241h 13m
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Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)

May 16, 20241h 35m
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A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)

May 12, 20241h 12m
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Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

May 5, 20241h 8m
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This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player)

May 2, 20241h 21m
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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Apr 28, 20241h 35m
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How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)

Apr 25, 20241h 26m
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Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

Apr 21, 20241h 40m
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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

Apr 18, 20241h 20m
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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

Apr 14, 20241h 21m
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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Apr 11, 20241h 27m
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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Apr 7, 20241h 27m
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Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)

Apr 4, 20241h 41m
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How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

Mar 31, 20241h 11m
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Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

Mar 24, 20241h 18m
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The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)

Mar 21, 20241h 33m
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The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

Mar 17, 20241h 9m
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Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Mar 10, 20241h 25m
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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Mar 7, 20241h 12m
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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Mar 3, 20241h 42m
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How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)

Feb 25, 20241h 27m
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How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

Feb 22, 20241h 13m
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Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

Feb 18, 20242h 1m
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Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)

Feb 11, 20241h 35m
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Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

Feb 8, 20241h 8m
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Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)

Feb 4, 20241h 21m
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Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

Jan 28, 20241h 14m
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Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market

Jan 25, 20241h 24m
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

Jan 21, 20241h 49m
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The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)

Jan 18, 20241h 10m
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Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

Jan 14, 20241h 21m
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How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

Jan 11, 20241h 27m
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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Jan 7, 20241h 16m
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The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

Jan 4, 20241h 14m
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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

Dec 29, 20231h 24m
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The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

Dec 27, 20231h 50m
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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Dec 21, 20231h 33m
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Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

Dec 17, 20231h 49m
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How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)

Dec 15, 20231h 42m
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Failure

Dec 13, 20231h 1m
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Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott

Dec 10, 20231h 26m
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The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)

Dec 7, 20231h 12m
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Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)

Dec 3, 20231h 39m
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The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)

Dec 1, 202350m
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My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests

Nov 29, 202320m
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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Nov 26, 20231h 40m
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Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)

Nov 19, 20231h 4m
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The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

Nov 16, 20231h 19m
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Brian Chesky’s new playbook

Nov 12, 20231h 13m
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Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)

Nov 9, 20231h 23m
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Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)

Nov 5, 20231h 22m
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Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)

Nov 2, 20231h 33m
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Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

Oct 29, 20232h 14m
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What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)

Oct 26, 20231h 23m
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A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)

Oct 22, 20231h 30m
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Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo)

Oct 19, 20231h 36m
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Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)

Oct 15, 20231h 34m
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How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)

Oct 12, 20231h 42m
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Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)

Oct 8, 20231h 39m
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Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life

Oct 5, 20231h 42m
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What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)

Oct 1, 20231h 29m
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Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)

Sep 28, 20231h 7m
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How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)

Sep 24, 20231h 16m
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Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)

Sep 21, 20231h 12m
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How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)

Sep 17, 20231h 48m
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Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)

Sep 14, 20231h 16m
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When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)

Sep 10, 20231h 26m
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An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)

Sep 7, 20231h 31m
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Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)

Sep 3, 20231h 11m
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An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)

Aug 27, 20231h 11m
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The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)

Aug 24, 20231h 9m
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Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube)

Aug 20, 20231h 3m
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The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)

Aug 13, 20231h 24m
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Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI)

Aug 10, 20231h 31m
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Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)

Aug 6, 20231h 16m
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How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)

Jul 30, 20231h 16m
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The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)

Jul 27, 20231h 23m
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The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

Jul 23, 20231h 25m
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LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

Jul 16, 20231h 4m
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M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)

Jul 13, 20231h 0m
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

Jul 9, 20231h 3m
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Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)

Jul 2, 20231h 7m
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Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)

Jun 25, 20231h 17m
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Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)

Jun 18, 20231h 14m
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

Jun 15, 20231h 20m
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Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

Jun 11, 20231h 25m
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Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)

Jun 4, 20231h 8m
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Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks

Jun 1, 20231h 17m
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The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin

May 28, 20231h 2m
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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)

May 21, 20231h 24m
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Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)

May 18, 20231h 2m
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Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles | Ayo Omojola (Carbon Health, Cash App)

May 14, 202352m
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Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)

May 7, 20231h 34m
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Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

May 4, 20231h 29m
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How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password)

Apr 30, 20231h 7m
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The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna

Apr 23, 20231h 16m
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An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)

Apr 20, 20231h 25m
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How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey)

Apr 16, 20231h 18m
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How to build a cult-like brand | Laura Modi (Bobbie)

Apr 13, 20231h 1m
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Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)

Apr 9, 202342m
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Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello)

Apr 6, 202359m
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The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)

Apr 2, 20231h 33m
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Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)

Mar 30, 20231h 17m
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Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)

Mar 26, 20231h 2m
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Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)

Mar 23, 20231h 3m
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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Mar 19, 20231h 28m
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The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)

Mar 16, 20231h 13m
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Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi

Mar 12, 20231h 22m
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Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude)

Mar 9, 20231h 21m
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Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe)

Mar 5, 20231h 21m
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Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

Mar 2, 20231h 25m
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Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)

Feb 26, 20231h 1m
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An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam

Feb 23, 202358m
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10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)

Feb 19, 20231h 13m
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Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)

Feb 16, 20231h 6m
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Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)

Feb 12, 20231h 4m
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Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

Feb 9, 202355m
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AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)

Feb 5, 202348m
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How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)

Feb 2, 20231h 2m
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Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner

Jan 29, 20231h 13m
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An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)

Jan 26, 202346m
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Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

Jan 19, 20231h 21m
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What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)

Jan 15, 20231h 40m
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How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)

Jan 12, 202353m
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An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)

Jan 8, 20231h 8m
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Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)

Jan 5, 20231h 10m
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Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year

Dec 29, 20221h 1m
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Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)

Dec 18, 20221h 17m
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Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)

Dec 15, 20221h 1m
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How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital)

Dec 11, 20221h 7m
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The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)

Dec 8, 20221h 38m
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How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)

Dec 4, 20221h 26m
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The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

Dec 1, 20221h 30m
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How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)

Nov 27, 20221h 12m
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What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)

Nov 20, 20221h 4m
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Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)

Nov 17, 20221h 14m
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An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)

Nov 13, 20221h 7m
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How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)

Nov 10, 20221h 11m
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How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)

Nov 6, 20221h 31m
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Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst)

Nov 3, 20221h 8m
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Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

Oct 30, 20221h 1m
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Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)

Oct 27, 202255m
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How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar)

Oct 23, 20221h 5m
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Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)

Oct 20, 20221h 7m
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Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

Oct 16, 202253m
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How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

Oct 13, 20221h 5m
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Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Oct 9, 20221h 4m
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Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)

Oct 2, 202256m
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Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)

Sep 29, 20221h 6m
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Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)

Sep 25, 202259m
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Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)

Sep 18, 20221h 10m
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When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)

Sep 15, 20221h 9m
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How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)

Sep 11, 20221h 10m
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The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)

Sep 4, 20221h 4m
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How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)

Sep 1, 20221h 8m
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Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)

Aug 28, 202253m
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The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

Aug 21, 202259m
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The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)

Aug 18, 20221h 22m
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The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft

Aug 14, 20221h 31m
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How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

Aug 7, 20221h 9m
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How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal)

Aug 4, 20221h 11m
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How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu

Jul 31, 20221h 3m
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How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri

Jul 28, 202253m
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How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google

Jul 24, 20221h 14m
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How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite

Jul 21, 202255m
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Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more

Jul 18, 20221h 0m
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Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more

Jul 14, 20221h 4m
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Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more

Jul 11, 202259m
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Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more

Jul 5, 20221h 1m
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Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more

Jun 30, 202247m
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Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid

Jun 27, 202249m
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Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more

Jun 23, 202259m
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Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more

Jun 20, 202259m
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Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more

Jun 16, 202249m
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Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more

Jun 13, 20221h 2m
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April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process

Jun 9, 20221h 0m
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Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking

Jun 7, 20221h 16m
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Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management

Jun 7, 20221h 11m
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Jun 5, 20223m