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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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TEI 295: Do you have what it takes to be a great product manager? Results of the Product Team Performance study – with Greg Geracie

Product Innovation Educators

Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. 2:50] Tell us about the survey of product managers you’ve done since 2012. Five factors of successful product managers.

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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. A bad plan is better than no plan." This contrarian question helps you identify the unique insight from which you can develop a compelling business. Example: Box.

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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. “Fail faster” is something nobody really wants. They called the product “Twttr”.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. 2012 – the Inception. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. This project took the Kenyan market by storm when it launched in November 2012, with 100,000 new accounts signed up on the first day of operation.