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The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Custom AI models as a competitive edge: Cursor’s success is driven by custom AI models tailored to specific tasks, such as advanced autocomplete for coding, which complement foundation models like GPT.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Requirements Engineering Following roadmap creation, requirements engineering emerges as a crucial activity where product strategy meets technical execution. This phase highlights the important distinction between product manager and product owner roles, particularly in Agile environments.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

Claude , ChatGPT ): The AI tools you probably know, which can also write and explain basic code Cloud development environments (e.g. A prompt like “Build me a calculator with React” results in the following: If you want to run this code, ChatGPT requires you to copy and paste the code into your IDE and run it on your own computer.

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Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman

Lenny Rachitsky

At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for ChatGPT for consumers and enterprises, as well as their developer API platform. An engineer turned marketer, Krithika brings a uniquely analytical approach to marketing. While at Stripe, she spent over eight years building and scaling their marketing function from scratch.

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458: Selecting, planning, and prototyping product features – with Matt Genovese

Product Innovation Educators

He spent the first half of his 25-year engineering career in the semiconductor industry as a chip designer and the latter half in software product development. 10:12] What do you do when the engineering team isn’t listening to the product managers? Engineers usually strive for perfection. UX is just a component of design.

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Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Lenny Rachitsky

AI already boosting PM workflows: Sachin’s teams use ChatGPT and Gemini for mock drafts, research synthesis, deep research “thought partner” prompts, and long-doc summarization—freeing time for judgment calls. Empathy beats ego: Users spend minutes, not their lives, inside your product.