Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Along the way, he helped Square scale from a late-stage pre-IPO startup to $3.6 billion in annual gross profit, expand globally, and build out a full suite of products across payments, banking, and SaaS. Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Assemble a multidisciplinary team Collaborate with experts across product management, data science, engineering, and business strategy to address technical challenges, align goals, and ensure stakeholder buy-in. A targeted PoC demonstrates immediate value while laying the groundwork for scaling AI solutions.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2025

Founders focus on product-market fit, customer acquisition, and engineering scale long before they turn serious attention to monetization. By treating pricing as a core competency early, you’ll avoid painful repositioning later, and capture more of the value your product already creates. Get ahead of them early.

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AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

He previously held senior roles at Boohoo Group, Journey Further, Sky, and Visa, where he led teams across experimentation, analytics, and digital product. Jonny believes that smaller companies and startups—especially in their early, exploratory stages—stand to benefit the most from experimentation.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

At Modus Create, we define intelligent product development as: Building software around AI: Where AI is embedded into the product experience (i.e., personalization, recommendation engines, generative UI, LLM-based support, predictive analytics).

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product.

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Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2025

Userguiding – Best startup-friendly platform for automated onboarding. Can it support different onboarding processes across teams, products, or even platforms without needing constant dev help? Pricing and use case : Some tools are made for startups with limited resources. Starts at $300/month for 1,000 MAUs.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Innovation Leaders For those preparing to: Help their organizations improve innovation processes Move into formal innovation leadership roles I offer the Certified Innovation Leader (CIL) Program, aligned with the Association of International Product Marketers and Managers (AIPMM).

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 18, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Pragmatic Institute —Industry‑recognized product, marketing, and AI training and certifications Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer of experiences and devices at Microsoft, (..)

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI. Som Nath [Image] Candidates short profile Som has over 6 years of experience in the tech industry, particularly in 0-to-1 startup environments.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 22, 2025

Data flywheels beat everything: For AI startups to compete with giants, you need proprietary data that improves through usage. Managing-up formula: “Say you’re gonna do the thing, say you’re doing the thing, say you did the thing.” Windsurf succeeded by tracking which code suggestions users accept and reject.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand the role of product marketing. Start creating your product marketing plan. Create alignment between product and marketing. Walk into any product-first company and you’ll notice the common misconception that “marketing” is a dirty word.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

How product managers can boost innovation in companies large and small. In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Consequently, I think of Eric Ries as the create of Lean Startup and Steve Blank as its father. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

During this period, we went through different phases, which gave us several lessons that helped us identify our final vision to build an open-source data integration engine. Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. 4 of the 5 people in the team were engineers.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Did you know that 42% of startups fail because no one wants to buy their product? For corporations, nearly 80% of new products fail each year for the exact same reason. So why are we still developing products no one wants? Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Time goes by, runway decreases. It’s full of examples. ??

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

The hardest part of bringing a new product to market is always the elusive hunt for product/market fit. Marc Andreessen describes product/market fit as "being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market". The experience of failing on Anywhere.FM

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One thing above all makes a successful startup: people who purchase and love the product. If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). But how come it’s so challenging to reach success as a startup?

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? It’s almost done.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information. The framework consists of three elements: product-market fit, go-to-market fit, and growth and moat.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

By ensuring the external messaging is in sync with the internal product planning your opportunity for success and customer satisfaction is greatly increased. Product people need to think end to end. Today, as always, I’m joined by our SVP of product, Mr. Paul Adams. What is product marketing? Hello, Paul.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

My last role at Facebook was as a product manager in the Facebook Reality Labs, which is now Meta. The go-to-market (GTM) process involves many different teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and management. We worked with teams across Facebook to launch the product.

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