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How to 10x your product intuition, for product managers and interviewees
I was at Facebook for five years, and managed products ranging from Instagram Video Chat to algorithms for Facebook News Feed. I’ve had many friends…
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How to Ace Facebook's Product Execution Interview
And 10x your intuition for setting the right metrics for your team.
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Useless vs. Useful Competitive Analysis
When I first joined Tesla as a product manager, I remember making a competitive analysis chart to understand the competitive landscape. This is a common…
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How to Gain an Edge as a B2B PM
Building for enterprises is a unique rollercoaster compared to building for typical consumers.
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How to be More Strategic: How Samuel Odio led FiveStars out of a slowdown and into a $317m acquisition
As product managers, the advice to be “more strategic” often eludes us, clouded in business school jargon like SWOT analysis and vague directives.
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Recognizing a bad manager, how to design your way out
As I’ve grown in my career journey, I’ve grown better at learning when to not misplace the cause to myself, and realize when my options are limited, so…
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Decoding Behavioral Interviewing: Strategies for Success
I’ve been trying to figure out what makes a great behavioral interview response – and more deeply, to talk and tell a story about the things I’ve built…
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How to ramp up on a new industry 10x faster
I’ve always been curious about how people ramp up quickly on an industry and form a perspective in the midst ambiguity, especially with new technologies…
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Chasing highs that hurt your product
I've always been fascinated by the indicators of a healthy product organization and how they evolve as a company scales. Here I connect themes from…
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The risk of not being a technical PM
The common rhetoric is being technical makes you a better product manager – but this isn’t always true.
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3 key factors that make the most drastic difference in how a PM operates
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…
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How to transform data points into airtight narratives
We’ve all been in a meeting where there’s a senior engineer or executive poking holes in the data and decision-making you’re presenting. If you’re not…
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