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“Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. It's incredible. So touching. Really, really great. Also, I think product managers should be great writers. So, I love that. And then the other book that I was going to say, but I'm glad you mentioned Claire, is Claire's book, Scaling People, which is coming out. I had a very small hand in ghost writing for her a little bit, in the first draft. So I use a lot of the early chapters from that book still, in management. And I still recommend the tactics in there, so I'm excited for her to get it out.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Well, first and foremost, it's Retool. And then, the other SaaS tools that we use a lot, Slack, Gong, Linear and FullStory.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I haven't gotten a copy yet. I think you could pre-order it now, and we'll link to it in the show notes.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Submitting linear requests or bug requests happens in Retool, and then goes to Linear. So yeah, it's how we run the company.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Actually, at least one, if not two of the three products that we launched this last year were on the crazy ideas list at one point.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“At Airbnb, I think for a period, there was an award for the biggest failure project and feature.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Or have them present it all-hands and share what they learned. And it almost always results in, I think, a really positive twist.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I kind of directly search for the thing that I'm searching for. And I think Rewind just fits that user behavior so, so well.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“It grew and became enterprisey down the road. Retool, on the other hand, I think people think it's product-led growth.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“It is kind of a moment for folks to take a step back. And then, I think more than anything, in people's planning processes, I really like asking folks the 20% more time question.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Just because, I think what we ended up doing is, we ended up launching the idea behind all three of these products at around the same time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Retool also didn't really have PMs for a while. And I think actually both in the Stripe case and the Retool case, the thing that both of these companies have in common is, you're building for developers.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And you state your topic." So anyway, I think the point is, the more formulaic, the more sort of mass produced you're trying to make something.”
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- Lenny's Podcast