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Andrew Chen
AUGUST 23, 2023
Usually the essays are scheduled to go out Monday/Tuesday morning at 9am The day the post goes out, I do a light proof-read and then once it goes out, I write a tweetstorm directing traffic This whole process has served me well for years. Recently, I’ve had some major changes in my workflow, and wanted to share more. Be opinionated.
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 16, 2024
Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. These equations and concepts can be some of the most divisive within your company, particularly between your product, GTM, finance, and sales teams. Business equations don’t cover every important metric.
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Andrew Chen
JULY 10, 2018
Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. To lead off this list, my colleague @jeff_jordan has an awesome preso that covers everything from the marketplace “wheel” – network effects, and how they’re different than ecommerce products. The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful.
Andrew Chen
JUNE 25, 2019
Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. It’s fantastic, and I hope you enjoy it.
Andrew Chen
AUGUST 21, 2023
This wave of startups promised creators that they could help them better monetize their audience on social media if they only promoted their products. Initially, these started almost as “tip jars” but over the years, many, many creative products have been tried, spanning e-commerce to newsletters to Q&A, and more.
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 7, 2018
These days it seems like everyone wants their service to become the next big platform – every budding entrepreneur begins their pitch by stating their aspiration to become the next Uber, Airbnb or Facebook of their field. But what do we know about building technological platforms? How the city relates to platforms.
Sachin Rekhi
OCTOBER 10, 2018
I just finished reading The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky and highly recommend it for product managers at both startups and established tech firms. Scott Belsky shares his lessons learned optimizing and enduring the messy and unsexy middle every product goes through before (hopefully) thriving. Measure each feature by its own measure.
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