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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | HelpBar by Chameleon —the free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos.

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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Lenny Rachitsky

Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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10 Books All Product Managers Should Have On Their Desk

Sequent Learning

The Startup Playbook: Founder-to-Founder Advice From Two Startup Veterans by Rajat Bhargava (Author), Will Herman. Written by Rajat Bhargava, and Will Herman , the Startup Playbook is full of advice and guidance from entrepreneurs who share both success stories and moments of utter failure.

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Product Management 101 — Crash Course in Product Management (Introduction)

The Product Coalition

I ( LinkedIn profile ) was in a very similar situation a few years ago, when I co-founded a Tech Startup and was managing the product. To start with, I wrote this handbook “ Product Management 101 ”. If any of the above questions is something that’s on top of your mind, then worry not! Click ??

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How to declutter product portfolios with modular productization

The Product Coalition

features that don’t add value or disrupt user experience; small, non-scalable products made for very specific customers; and components that can’t integrate easily into future roadmap), documenting and sharing the architecture of modules for easy access across the company.

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How I Write

Sachin Rekhi

How to Prioritize a Product Roadmap. I'm often asked how long it takes me to write each of my essays as folks are always curious how I fit in writing as just a hobby when I have always had a full-time job as either a product exec or startup founder. I also write about the fundamentals of a given topic. Deep dives.