Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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22 published records
01 / belief
“I think that that experience was a very humbling experience because to be told no and then to say that this will never happen was really hard.”
02 / recommendation
“Well, first, I love the book, Quiet by Susan Cain. She talks about the power of introverts.”
03 / belief
“" I'm like, "Why not." And you end up dropping into different parts of your life and I think sometimes by saying, "Here's where I want to go and here's how I want to get there," you can have such a better career.”
04 / belief
“" Still working on him. But I actually think he has so much to give and I think he has learned so much about the craft, and I wish that more product managers feel comfortable that they have something to give to the world.”
05 / belief
“I think what you're saying right now will resonate with a lot of people when they see people posting.”
06 / belief
“We have a segment on this podcast called Failure Corner where people share a failure they went through kind of along the same lines and something we learned from that experience.”
07 / belief
“I think when you have passion around a product or passion around a company or around a business model or around something, it shows.”
08 / belief
“Also, I think the thing about job opportunities in particular is they tend to come serially.”
09 / belief
“" Is it just like, "Hey, Mark. Here's what I think." I imagine it's not as easy as that.”
10 / belief
“I came with a curiosity and I think that's what made me a great product manager was that I didn't have a set way of doing things.”
11 / belief
“You have a really nice perspective on how to think about growth. I think a lot of people think of growth as like, "Here's a magic bullet.”
12 / belief
“I think we do a disservice when we say we're not good at speaking up because it's a skill like any other.”
13 / recommendation
“I think as you get more senior, having an individual coach helps because the situations are so much more unique.”
14 / recommendation
“And then the last one I would say is, well, Susan Cain's Quiet. I adore the book because I do have introverted kids.”
15 / preference
“There's like an innate just doing this because I want to get attention when often... And the way I started this is just like things I've learned that I think are useful, I'm just going to put them out there.”
16 / evaluation
“I tell people sometimes we overthink as product manager if we just had the perfect plan, the perfect battle plan, but instead imagine you're a team and you can ship, I don't know, let's say four things.”
17 / evaluation
“I think that's really tragic because when you PM your career, it's about intentionality.”
18 / evaluation
“" And I love that for her. And I think she's still earlier in her career, she has so much time ahead of her, but it's really incredible to see her kind of on this path and to know that that's her dream, and that I can help her a little bit along the way.”
19 / evaluation
“That's amazing. That is because you are there, you're going to change your trajectory of the product, or this thing has a hundred thousand users, you're going to get it to 200,000.”
20 / evaluation
“Because your peers also have influence over people's ratings and their promotions, and I was constantly just trying to figure out how to get them to see her brilliance.”
21 / recommendation
“I used to do a new hire PM class and I say, "Look, a lot of you are going to go into the core product and your job is to grow X by 3 to 5% every six months.”
22 / evaluation
“In fact, I actually went back to run the payments team while I was working on that product because the team we had gathered still want to continue working on it, but I needed a second job back on the payments team because they asked me, "We don't think this thing is going to work.”