Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons along the way. Key insight: Hold your vision, but pivot on tactics when needed. ” The big lesson was to solve a real user need. .”

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

If it’s hard for you to let go of being actively involved in managing a product or if you don’t find it rewarding to help and support a group of product people, then becoming a head of product is probably not right for you, at least not at this point in time. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

I’ve explained that the context typically needs to be the product vision, and a specific set of outcome-based objectives for each team (OKR’s are an effective way to do that). Product Vision. Product Vision. In truth, buying into a vision is a bit of a leap of faith. Product Strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. What exactly is product strategy? product marketing, user research, content design, etc.).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. All products follow the same life cycle: development, growth, maturity, decline. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Raaz was one of the first five employees at Wiz, joining as the first product manager, and helped the team pivot to what may be the most intense PMF in history. Before Wiz, Raaz led security products at Microsoft, including Azure Sentinel.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. Julian Dunn is a senior product manager with Chef Software where he. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 28, 2019

That brings us to the subject of influence among product management and product marketing teams. And that market knowledge is the key to leading from a position of strength. What if product management and product marketing were more knowledgeable on the market collectively than all other disciplines combined?

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In order to find these answers—and involve the team in the process—Lisa says she decided to run a full week design sprint “so we could turn our customer research into a cross-channel orchestration vision. This vision could then be broken down into parts that could be prioritized and fed into the roadmap. Tweet This.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hilary Gridley is the director of product management at WHOOP, where she oversees the core product team, including AI, Health, and Coaching initiatives, specializing in combining AI with evidence-based approaches to help millions improve their health and performance.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2023

The journey of leadership is, in many ways, a journey toward embracing our incompleteness Recently, I stumbled upon an insightful article by HBR titled “I n Praise of the Incomplete Leader ” and found it strikingly relevant. There were times when the alignment seemed almost impossible, the visions clashing.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. They define the product vision , strategy, and roadmap.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. And product marketing as well. You have this grand vision. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. Teresa: Okay. Yes, great.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

That market information becomes the platform for all product, marketing, sales and customer success decisions and priorities. Product management owns that platform. Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. The post Hey Product Management, Strategic Direction is Yours for the Taking.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

It transformed Adobe from selling boxed products to selling services and subscriptions, creating new value for customers. It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07]

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Amanda is passionate about customer led product design and in product prototyping to deliver best in market products and customer outcomes. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. You need to create your vision and define your strategy accordingly?—?simply simply because you need a vision to guide you and you need to create the best one you can at any given point in time. You should.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. Yury’s next step?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This insight is crucial for creating products that resonate and for leading teams effectively. Companies with strong product-market fit can thrive despite internal chaos, while well-run companies may struggle if they don’t solve a real customer need. Maintain a focus on your vision while remaining adaptable to changes.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Amanda is passionate about customer led product design and in product prototyping to deliver best in market products and customer outcomes. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. The Product I worked on did not exist. We started from two half-baked basic Computer Vision algorithms to objects. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” Script that worked: When speaking with the CEO, my client shared, “That product launch failure taught me three lessons about market timing that completely transformed my approach. ” The answers might surprise you.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. At the same time, PMMs should share their vision for how their role can add value to the overall team.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. At the same time, PMMs should share their vision for how their role can add value to the overall team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused focused on helping product leaders thrive and lead the product organization effectively as well as the product strategy in the right direction Transformational coaching?

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. A seasoned product leader with over 5 years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development, or technology.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2017

Rather than focusing on competing against all of the world to attract the world’s customers, find a market that you can win. Put on your product marketing hat and start to identify smaller undeserved markets to plant your flagpole – world domination can come later. Identify Your Ideal Customer.

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