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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. A bad plan is better than no plan." Origin of Lean Thinking. Plans Matter.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Case Study: Launching PayMe from HSBC

Mind the Product

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. While I was living and working in London in 2012, I noticed a recurring problem with paying back friends after a social activity.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. The product team discovered that visitors mostly used the video upload feature and stripped down all other features over time. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. They called the product “Twttr”.

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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growing fan communities and profits.