Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. While frameworks can offer valuable perspectives and guide decision-making, rigid adherence to them can lead to tunnel vision and unhelpful outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. I joined this highly motivated group of fifteen people in September 2015. In the framework of a project I lead at Elium, I had the pleasure to meet and interview a dozen founders of fast scaling companies.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 10, 2017

I’ve published a number of guest essays and original writing on topics like growth metrics, consumer psych, the startup ecosystem in the Bay Area, push notifications, and much more. Startups and big cos should approach growth differently (Video). Psych’d: A new user psychology framework for increasing funnel conversion.

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Brian Balfour

JANUARY 24, 2019

Superhuman was founded in 2015 (3ish years ago at the time of writing this). One of the many frameworks we dive deep on is Darius Contractor's (Head of Growth at FB Messenger), “Psych” Framework. A core part of that framework is thinking about your users attention and motivation like a fuel tank from empty to full.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ramotion is a small design agency located in San Francisco, USA, that works with growing startups and enterprises. . As a global web and app design company, we continuously collaborate with startups and enterprises all over the world. The company started its journey in 2015 as a solely mobile app development firm.

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The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He went on to join the exec team, reporting directly to Jack Dorsey and leading the comms strategy for Square’s IPO in 2015. The jobs-to-be-done of the comms function in the early days of a startup — and why it’s not a good customer acquisition strategy. A 3-question framework for simplifying your company message early on.

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Bryce York

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Join The Waitlist I’ve been in product management for well over a decade & have been using/building with AI/ML since 2015. Here’s my high-level framework for shipping your first LLM-powered feature: Identify a problem worth solving that’s a good fit for Gen AI Start by solving the problem with prompting (i.e.,

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DISQO

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Google Ventures team documents the approach they’ve used with hundreds of startups in their portfolio and network. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building A Great Company. Before there was The Lean Startup by Eric Ries there was The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In 2015, I saw a disturbing trend where startups were shunning business plans and launching MVPs instead. In a detailed post outlining each and every one of my career pivots, I provide a lens of how I've made this framework actionable for me. A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek see it as a great opportunity to get ahead of the competition and in this excellent session they demonstrate how to unearth some deep insights into customer motivation using the Jobs to be Done framework. How To Design Organisational Culture – Alex Osterwalder (Founder, Strategyzer) at BoS USA 2015.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 18, 2018

As a startup, there will always be major challenges during organizational transitions. Spongecell’s Targeting & Trafficking section circa 2015 What Were We Building? I think about this question a lot when I see myself leaning towards my instinct instead of data or our prioritization framework to make decisions.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Example – PayPal And here’s an example from back in 2015 of PayPal advertising its product: Features on show Pay on websites Pay in apps Send money Pay in stores Powerful marketing feeds on new and exciting forms of value designed to get users excited. For every FaceID there’s an iTunes Ping (remember that?!). A few things done well.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

Last time: At #BoS2018, the founder of Silicon Valley’s buzziest startup spoke about how he adopted and adapted Sean Ellis’ product-market fit survey at Superhuman. Last time: At Business of Software Conference USA 2015, Alex Osterwalder described the key steps in designing an effective organizational culture.

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DISQO

JULY 10, 2019

In this product management book, the Google Ventures team documents the approach they’ve used with hundreds of startups in their portfolio and network. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. If you have a backlog of to-dos going into 2015, this can help you tear through them.

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DISQO

JULY 10, 2019

In this product management book, the Google Ventures team documents the approach they’ve used with hundreds of startups in their portfolio and network. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. If you have a backlog of to-dos going into 2015, this can help you tear through them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Not only that, it is well-known for its mobile app that was first released in 2015. While these are not required to become a software engineer at Coinbase, the company lists the following as "nice-to-haves:" Software engineers with experience in rapid-growth startups or companies. Developmental experience with the Blockchain.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. We have a lot of freedom with the languages and frameworks that we use,” Zernach says. Before it was ‘these are the approved frameworks – go ahead and go at it.’”.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. We have a lot of freedom with the languages and frameworks that we use,” Zernach says. Before it was ‘these are the approved frameworks – go ahead and go at it.’”.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. We have a lot of freedom with the languages and frameworks that we use,” Zernach says. Before it was ‘these are the approved frameworks – go ahead and go at it.’”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms. In the summer of 2015, Box co-founder Aaron Levie recruited Jeetu Patel to create an open platform where developers could build Box content management into their own products. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, Andrew. Introduction.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 6, 2020

‘Don’t quit your job, do it part time and work overnight’, ‘you got to iterate and test’ and ‘lean startup! Lean Startup! Lean Startup!’ and all the things all the frameworks all the advice and rarely did anything agree with one another. So, to come up with my own framework for what I was going to do.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this talk Rich gives you the key points to remember throughout your journey from startup to success. Rich Mironov – a BoS conference regular having spoke about Product Roadmapping in 2018 and Software Economics in 2015 – is a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur; having been CEO/VP Product at six startups.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016.

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Productside

APRIL 14, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Why Enterprise Product Development is Headed for a Crash Back in December 2024 , Lenny Rachitskys podcast featured Melissa Perri in a conversation about the downsides of large, heavy frameworks like SAFe. Your release cycles havent. SAFe has grown from 4.5

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

You’ll also learn about a framework I now encourage every founder to use—and that Jake used himself to create Google Meet: the Founding Hypothesis. We’d met a couple of years earlier, in 2007, when Google bought their startup. My colleagues were Serge Lachapelle and Mikael Drugge.

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