Sitemap - 2024 - Lenny's Newsletter

Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Overcoming anxiety in front of large groups, what to optimize for in a career, involving designers in planning, using work laptop for side project, and more

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)

How Perplexity builds product

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite AI courses for PMs, tools for recording and summarizing meetings, dealing with a patronizing colleague, KPIs for a product lead aiming for a Head of Product role, more

How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)

How to make an impact in your first 90 days

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Demonstrating leadership skills in an interview, dealing with criticism from a stakeholder, boosting collaboration with a co-founder, handling unsuccessful A/B tests, and more

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

How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting engineering help to build an MVP, navigating product-area boundary issues, creating an empowering environment for devs, examples of great onboarding, and more

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

How AI will impact product management

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Explaining a short job tenure, who should own technical documentation, managing data requests, best practices for app tutorials, and more

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)

The secret to Duolingo’s exponential growth

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite user research tools, scaling a B2B SaaS startup, effective product positioning, equity crowdfunding, integrating networking into a job search, and more

Become a more technical product manager

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

🧠 Community Wisdom: Identifying good product managers, improving your business skills, bridging the divide between Product and Go-to-Market, giving actionable design feedback, and more

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

Taking the week off

The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons—plus a giveaway!

Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Dealing with lack of recognition, implementing modern product processes in non-tech orgs, running a bug bounty program, when to do competitive analysis, and more

Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

How to successfully launch on Product Hunt (when it’s right for your startup)

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Ideas for celebrating big launches, balancing large and small bets, handling unexpected compensation demands, making your video look better, and more

How to learn the most about a candidate from a single interview question

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Dealing with an undermining manager, skill set for an AI PM, best practices for triaging support tickets, finding a North Star metric, and more

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

You should be playing with GPTs at work

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Calculating your hourly rate as a consultant, creating a strategy for a multi-part product, questions to ask during a reference check, strategies for discovery pre-PMF, and more

The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Product development in a big company, collaboration between sales and product teams, liquidity in a digital product marketplace, improving team alignment, and more

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

My favorite decision-making frameworks

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Writing detailed PRDs, how to think more clearly, preparing your team for parental leave, getting insights from user session recordings, and more

Adding a work trial to your interview process

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

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting your first Product Manager title, recommendations for a family live-abroad experience, getting better at product strategy, and more

Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market

How Gong builds product

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

🧠 Community Wisdom: Whether you need to post on LinkedIn to be a successful PM, picking an analytics tool for an early-stage startup, keeping track of ideas and feedback, and more

The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)

How to describe your business as an equation

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting better at estimation, increasing visibility with executives, overcoming analysis paralysis, managing Slack overload, navigating an internal transfer, and more

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

What to do if your product isn’t taking off

The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

🧠 Community Wisdom: How to identify good PM candidates, building a 0-1 product inside a company, managing no-shows in user interviews, integrating OKRs with a flexible product roadmap, and more

The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

Inspiration for the year ahead