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The job of a product manager is to make good decisions. The most difficult decisions are the ones that require tough tradeoffs. In a perfect world, all…
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These questions appear easy at first, but in reality, are challenging because the question isn’t about naming metrics - it’s about first taking an educ…
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Most people think that the skills you learn as a PM at Facebook, Google, and Tesla will arm you with skills to succeed anywhere. The truth, however, is…
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Here we share some traps we avoided and things we learned along the way to successfully managing an ML product.
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When you run into a challenge working with others, it’s easy to get frustrated and jump to thinking it comes from incompetence - e.g. maybe it seems li…
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When I first started at Google, I thought the role of a product manager was simply to define the product vision and then work with my team to execute o…
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The common narrative is that a product manager needs to have certain qualities and operate in a certain way in order to succeed, but the fact of the ma…
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Early in my career, I* noticed the allure of % goals. If I had to increase restaurant reviews, then % of users who write restaurant reviews sounded lik…
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The common rhetoric is that product managers should act as the glue between engineering, design, and sales. This mindset was a trap. When I first start…
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In my first months as a PM, I* was more of a “prioritization machine” than a PM. Not in a good way. Engineers would ask me to help prioritize their pro…
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Strategic thinking is powerful -- it can often enable you to play chess when everyone else is playing checkers. Take Tesla’s Master Plan for example, “…
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One of my friends can instantly take a problem that at first appears intractable, like “How would you drive down the cost of Tesla’s autopilot system t…
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