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5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."
Jack Krawczyk • Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora
Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more
Erik Torenberg • See your Career as a Product
You picked a community. Why that one? You shipped a manual valuable process and then iterated it into a minimum viable product. Why did you choose to solve those problems in the ways that you did?
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
In 2013, Alex was a futurist for education in SAP. Tried to do some research on how the education industry was going to transform with new technology. This prompted Alex to start a company in the education space. Alex and his co-founder came up with a "billion dollar" startup idea to transform education by combining Coursera + Twitter into a new pr... See more
Josh Elman • Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community | #ProductSF
“Hey, I’m really impressed with the way you [do X]. I’d love to learn from you. Would you be willing to grab a coffee with me and share your approach?
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Half of what he looked at was my team’s results—did we achieve our aspirations in creating valuable, easy-to-use, and well-crafted design work? The other half was based on the strength and satisfaction of my team—did I do a good job hiring and developing individuals, and was my team happy and working well together? The first criterion looks at our
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One of the most interesting memos about the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook.On this memo, Mark Zuckerberg starts to share how excited he was about what he could do to grow lnstagram as an independent brand and product while also having Kevin Systrom (Founder of instagram) take on a major leadership role within Facebook that would span all of t... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • CONFIDENTIAL HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED NOT FOR CIRCULATION/COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF ONLY
