Product Managers at Work
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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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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…
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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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Most people switch jobs every few years, but as an ex-Facebook RPM, I* switched teams every six months. I saw a lot of different teams quickly early in…
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As PMs at Facebook and Tesla, we encountered many ambiguous challenges: from broad ones such as defining the strategy for expanding Facebook Groups to…
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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…
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As a PM, you'll get assignments such as: "Machine learning is getting exponentially better at predicting outcomes. How do you shape this into an…
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And 10x your intuition for setting the right metrics for your team.
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A friend recently told me a story about how an Amazon team had chosen a north star metric that misguided them, leading them to millions of dollars in…
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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 on…
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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 to…
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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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