Sachin Monga is the Head of Product at Substack, a platform that I personally use every day, and love. Before Substack, Sachin co-founded an app called Cocoon, which he ended up selling to Substack. Before that, he spent over seven years at Facebook as a PM working on video and camera products, building out the developer platform, and leading the ads growth team. In today’s episode, we dive deep on all things Substack. Sachin shares what it’s like transitioning from a large product team at Facebook to a small growth team. He discusses how to work with a hands-on founder and why you must be comfortable with rapid change in a PM role. He also shares unique features of Substack that make it an optimized experience for readers and writers, how he’d like to see it improved, and tips for anyone wanting to get started writing online.
I really like Substack. I have never had a membership to Twitter, Facebook , instagram, etc. I joined the dispatch writers first but they moved off of Substack and the format does not interest me. So I cancelled my membership.
I'm listening now and loving this episode.
Sachin has so much value to bring. I jumped all in on Substack, and I believe it will change the course of my writing.
Great interview.
I really like Substack. I have never had a membership to Twitter, Facebook , instagram, etc. I joined the dispatch writers first but they moved off of Substack and the format does not interest me. So I cancelled my membership.
Hooooly smokes, I loved this episode!
Hearing the behind-the-scenes product strategy of tools I love is always so fascinating.
Learned a lot about Substack from this episode. Thanks for sharing!
This guy is a pro!
Wonderful podcast, and so timely Lenny! We just launched our education newsletter and community last week, 100% inspired by you !
We’ll wait to beg you for a recommendation once we have a few more posts up :)
Happy with the podcast option here on Substack? I'm considering giving it a go.