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Camille Ricketts describes how Notion used community to build discovery, word of mouth and pathways into larger companies, while adapting community programs to the product and its users. · She recommends listening to members, supporting their goals and letting communities grow at a manageable pace.…
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Madhavan Ramanujam argues that pricing measures customer value and should shape product decisions early, through repeated willingness-to-pay conversations. · He explains how to segment customers, choose pricing and packaging, and frame value using behavioral pricing. · For downturns, he recommends…
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Sahil Mansuri describes how Bravado’s sales data and his experience inform a more cautious, regularly updated approach to forecasting in a downturn. · He argues that sales compensation and staffing should reward retention and customer value, and recommends using customer relationships and tailored…
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Gergely Orosz describes leaving Uber after layoffs and a period of reassessing his goals, then building a paid technology newsletter on years of blogging, writing and professional experience. · He explains the work’s demanding cadence, ways he structures focus time, and the tradeoffs of solo work,…
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Matt Mochary describes how fear and anger can distort judgment, and shares practical ways to handle difficult conversations, make people feel heard, and let employees go humanely. · He explains approaches to keeping teams small, running focused work time, conducting layoffs, and creating small inde…
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Ben Williams describes how Snyk grew from a focused tool for Node.js developers into a large developer security company by combining community engagement, free product access, and growth loops. · He explains why early self-serve monetization struggled, how Snyk later paired developer adoption with…
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Bob Lucas argues that Bitcoin may be near the end of its four-year cycle and that long-term investors should consider holding a substantial but reasonable core position instead of waiting to time the exact bottom. · He sees a further drop to $12,000–$13,000 as possible, but says it is not necessary…
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Executive recruiter Lauren Ipsen advises founders to define the specific outcomes and capabilities needed before hiring a senior product leader, then build relationships with strong candidates well before a role opens. · She recommends using trusted networks and deeper market mapping, and advises p…
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Sachin Monga describes Substack’s shift from a writing tool toward a network that aims to give writers and readers more control. · He explains how its small product organization works, how it prioritizes and tests features, and how writer recommendations have driven millions of subscriptions. · He…
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Barbra Gago explains when to create a product category, using Greenhouse’s unsuccessful attempt and Miro’s successful positioning as examples. · She discusses rebranding, building a brand around company values, and designing opinionated software to guide users toward better processes. · She also de…
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Adriel Frederick describes how his experiences at Facebook, Lyft and Reddit shaped his approach to product leadership: make experimental teams part of the company’s core mission, build diverse teams, and judge products by listening to users. · He argues that algorithms need human judgment and opera…
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Janna Bastow describes building Mind the Product and ProdPad, lessons from running conferences, and ways to improve public speaking. · She argues that roadmaps work better as flexible strategy prototypes using Now/Next/Later than as timelines that assign dates to everything, while noting that genui…
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Adam Fishman presents a growth competency model for hiring, developing, and evaluating growth practitioners, emphasizing balanced teams and clear feedback. · He argues that onboarding can improve activation and retention when informed by customer insights, while noting that conversion and retention…
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Dan Hockenmaier explains how growth models help teams understand business drivers and compare opportunities, while emphasizing that they are tools for assessment rather than forecasts. · He argues that retention and early customer experience matter deeply, and that marketplaces need to balance supp…
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Teresa Torres explains the opportunity solution tree as a way to connect a business outcome to customer opportunities, solutions, and assumption tests. · She recommends continuous customer feedback, including weekly interviews, while teams continue delivery and improve their bets over time. · She a…
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Jason Shah describes Web3 as volatile but still developing, and argues that progress, product focus and strong hiring help teams stay effective through downturns. · Drawing on Amazon, Airbnb and Alchemy, he shares practices for working backward from a launch, leading through attention to detail and…
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Adam Grenier explains how to assess emerging acquisition channels by matching customer needs, company goals and channel strengths, while weighing channel maturity and the company’s capacity for risk. · He recommends small, time-bounded tests with defined signals, and describes a growth-oriented CMO…
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Ryan J. · Salva explains how GitHub Copilot grew from experiments with OpenAI language models into an inline coding assistant, and how GitHub moved it from GitHub Next research into operational product teams. · He describes Copilot’s uses and limits, the technical and community challenges of scalin…
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Growth depends on matching acquisition channels to a product’s economics, network effects, and SEO potential. · Yuriy recommends focused experimentation with clear review criteria, careful measurement of paid media, and diversification paced to the company’s scale and risk. · He also highlights onb…
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Wes Kao recounts her path from corporate retail to co-founding altMBA and Maven, then shares practical ways to teach, write, and communicate more effectively. · Her advice includes emphasizing specific application, breaking up presentations with audience participation, managing up through clear upd…
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