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How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Lenny Rachitsky

Qureshi ( 05:10 ) Palantir’s unique culture and hiring ( 13:29 ) What Palantir looks for in people ( 16:14 ) Why they don't have titles ( 19:11 ) Forward-deployed engineers at Palantir ( 25:23 ) Key principles of Palantir's success ( 30:00 ) Gotham and Foundry ( 36:58 ) The ontology concept ( 38:02 ) Life as a forward-deployed engineer ( 41:36 (..)

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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

He kickstarted his career at Google as an associate product manager and eventually led product for Gmail, witnessing its growth from beta to 200 million users. examples: Vanta, Lattice, Persona] Level two: Developing product-market fit. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company.

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BI vs. product analytics: Key differentiators

Mixpanel

In 2019, industry-leading Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Looker and Tableau, were acquired by Google and Salesforce for over $18 billion combined. More recently in 2020, cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake went public at an eye-popping market capitalization of $70 billion.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

The “shiny penny” approach (focus all your attention on the hottest tools in the market) or “head in the sand” approach (fall victim to analysis paralysis and avoid choosing any tools) are no longer viable. What is a marketing technology stack? Alternatives: Microsoft BI, Looker. LeanData – lead management.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Tune in to this webinar to hear how Mark43 Product Manager Richard Cheng went about researching, prototyping, and iterating to deliver analytics and business intelligence tools to police departments, emergency call centers, and other public safety agencies, bringing Mark43 users a positive and effective product experience.

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How to Become a Product Analyst [+Tools and Resources]

Userpilot

Carrying out extensive market research to identify patterns and trends that serve as pointers for product strategies. Monitoring the product market performance and proposing necessary changes. Assist in developing the product roadmap, aligning it with company goals, market trends, and customer requirements.

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Linking Strategy, Insights, & Execution: Jake Johnson on Product Ops at Drift

Amplitude

I had some experience using self-service visualization tools like Tableau and Looker at LogMeIn, and I liked being able to expose insights that were worth exposing. A lot of times it’s based on a hunch, or the company believes there’s product-market fit in a certain area. But objectives like those are farther out in the future.