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“One book is Working Backwards. We covered that. The other one that has shaped my beliefs a lot is called How Brands Grow by a professor called Byron Sharp. There are two paths to it, How Brands Grow 1 and 2, that's both very good. The other book which I really love is... and recently, Kunal Shah, who's the founder of Cred, an Indian startup, suggested is The Luxury Strategy. The reason why I love that book is because it gets into the depth of the human psychology behind hierarchies, and how lords, and kings, and those kind of social hierarchies have shaped how people think about aspirational products and so on. So highly recommend it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The very recent product that I like is called RISE. It's a sleep track app because I am half insomniac, and for the longest time, I was thinking about, "How can I track this?”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Where are some numbers of just like companies in India, people in India's money spent in India? I don't know.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We've talked about breaking bad and full-stack product management, full-stack thinking, working backwards, bread and butter, rule of threes. I don't know.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think 2010 was when it started because... Look, there were a few products that were built before that also, and I think somebody said this clearly that usually, when modern consumer internet starts coming in countries, it usually starts with travel, so you do have...”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Consumers are not predictable as much as we thought." That has led to, now, finally, I think, product management coming of age.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think with that comes a whole bunch of qualities around curiosity, learnability, never giving up, consumer-backward thinking, "I really want to solve this," and all of that that comes with that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Now, I'm choosing one on the company's behalf on the basis of whatever I know about the market, about the company, about our strategy, and about how we will make it successful.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think working with AI, many, many teams and companies get too excited about AI, and the possibilities, and so on, and it's almost like a solution ready to find a problem within their companies, which also is fine because now you're thinking about possibilities on what this particular technology can do for my company.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think what's cool about these are they're essentially ways to measure performance.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think what you said here is not like you have to be amazing at these to get into product and do well.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" I think that gives me a good understanding of their frameworks and why they're just saying what, and then we go back into concrete examples where they chose one versus the other, and then take it from there.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If you've read the book called TEEN Topologies, that's one interesting book which starts with Conway's law and essentially saying, "Show me an engineering architecture, and I will actually tell you what the org design of this company is," but that also manifests itself in products that you can basically look at a product.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We had to clarify that consumer comes first, the end consumer which is actually eating food because we are a convenience company that delivers to the end consumer, and when you're thinking about restaurants or delivery partners, we work with them because we both are...”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's an Indian company called Reliance Jio that basically got internet at the cheapest prices for smartphones. So because of this, a whole population came onto the internet which was hungry for newer products, newer content, completely different ways of interacting with each other, and using internet for all sorts of different things.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Can you say that within three months, we would have achieved this much?" So using that to build one entire picture is one way that I found it really powerful because if you find disagreements here, then say, "I can't ship it," then you change the date, and then you change the goals because all of these things are changing together.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think I recommend this every product manager to do a show don't tell version of their current version.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Well, they will own some parts of the problem fully, but if they need to work with everybody to make sure that eventual product that they launch is successful and not only successful from the point of view of, "Hey, we launched something that works for users," et cetera, that's not the definition of success.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think the other benefit, just one of the benefits of working backwards in Amazon's whole written-down memo approach is it forces you to crystallize ideas and not stay superficial because there's so many good ideas in theory.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Now, we want to do very little of X because current consumers, okay, we will take care of them, but now we want to pivot into Y.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“X rupees if you buy from us, continuing that entire journey in the language that they understand and with the user experience that is continuation from the marketing to product, other thing that we started focusing on a lot more, and it instantly started showing us results.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Most product managers should not even be product managers. They should think a little bit more around whether this is actually the right field for them because I think a lot of people from other areas have entered the field without fully realizing what it takes.”
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- Lenny's Podcast