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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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Aug 7, 2020
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Don’t be the Glue
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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Nov 21, 2020
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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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Sep 4, 2020
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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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Jan 18, 2021
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2 Ways To Diagnose Your Team for High-Performance
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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Sep 19, 2020
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How to Ace Facebook's Product Execution Interview
And 10x your intuition for setting the right metrics for your team.
Alexis and Adrienne
Oct 21, 2021
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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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Jun 27
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How to build a metrics dashboard so you don’t lose millions in revenue
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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Aug 14, 2020
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How To Think Strategically
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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Oct 23, 2020
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Myopia that Kills Your Company
When people think of Netflix’s biggest competitors, they typically think of other video streaming platforms – Hulu, YouTube, and Prime Video. But the…
Alexis and Adrienne
Jul 29
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Debugging business problems
As PMs at Facebook and Tesla, we encountered many ambiguous challenges: from broad ones such as defining the strategy for expanding Facebook Groups to…
Alexis and Adrienne
Dec 8, 2021
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How to Ace Google’s Product Strategy Interview
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…
Alexis and Adrienne
Oct 8, 2020
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