Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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21 published records
01 / recommendation
“The main learnings from that is, don't take on projects that are going to be six months, a year, because you just generally don't have control over the macro.”
02 / evaluation
“For most of the world, they just need access to a US dollar, stable coin and just knowing that my currency is not getting deinflated because of things beyond my control.”
03 / recommendation
“The one I read most recently, which I thought was pretty amazing and a lot of overlap with what I said today, The Five Kinds Of Wealth.”
04 / belief
“There's so much there. There's I think an important point that I'll add, and I'm curious if you agree.”
05 / observation
“The only way that works for me is I keep a very three calendar because you cannot do this without that.”
06 / belief
“We believe product teams should focus engineering efforts on competitive advantages, not integrations.”
07 / belief
“If you get a very strong resonance there, I think that would be a great career step irrespective of whether it's in Bangkok or Spain or however the compensation is going to be, because truly you'll find that you grow much faster because it's a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy at that point.”
08 / belief
“As you were talking, I realized that a lot of these companies that produce the best PMs are to your point, non-US based, but incredibly successful in their location.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don't know if he'd called himself the product manager 'cause I don't think he loved product managers.”
10 / uncertainty
“What are these results telling you?" I'm like, I don't know. She's like, this tells me you should start your own company and work on your own.”
11 / belief
“People can move mountains in a small amount of time. That extreme ownership culture, I think, probably was the most fascinating part of working at Binance that I've now tried to take.”
12 / evaluation
“Like in India, a lot of products are only designed for Indian market, a lot of products in China only designed for Chinese market, but from the US you're designing product for the world and a lot of the times you don't experience the same constraints or you don't empathize with the user at the same level because you just haven't lived that user's life.”
13 / recommendation
“We use a tool called Writer for our copywriting and UX teams, especially because we are operating in Europe across several languages.”
14 / recommendation
“We should still, because I used to work for Android Enterprise team before, I'm like, what if we just made it an enterprise product?”
15 / preference
“Then we go cell by cell based on, let's say if I was running a typical product team, I would say, okay, let's just look at maybe the top 90 percentile of our users, but this was Binance and then CZ is like, "No user left behind.”
16 / recommendation
“I think the number one thing I shared before, the best thing you can do is find companies that are growing fast because it compounds your learning at a much faster interval.”
17 / commitment
“You can come with any ideas, we're just going to do what I think, but unless you come with strong sense of proof to override me.”
18 / evaluation
“We look at largely, find a lot of companies that really look at data without looking at cohorts that make completely bad decisions, right, because if you look at your dashboard as a mixture of users over 10 years, 20 years, even six months, and they all behave differently.”
19 / prediction
“The second half of your career, you probably make, I don't know, 10 times more than you make the first part of your career.”
20 / recommendation
“I want to hire a product manager focused purely on SEO and because I think that's one of our highest leverage areas right now.”
21 / evaluation
“You still launch big products, but even over there we try and get early signals as soon as possible. But because in Nagoda, like one of the big projects we launched was we wanted to control the payments infrastructure for all the hotels and we thought if we had that device in the hotel's desk, so not only for bookings made online, but for everything that happens at the hotel, if we control that infrastructure, not only would we make money, but we had a touch point with the users that went beyond booking the travel.”