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“Yeah, they oldies but goodies, is probably going to be The Lean Startup that I still find actually really good. And the key lessons in there I still think are very applicable to a lot of people, particularly the cohort analysis bit, which for some reason I still don't see people do anywhere near enough cohort analysis. So there you go, that's my little tip. And then INSPIRED: How to build products that people love by Marty Kagan and the Silicon Valley product group. That's an oldie but a goodie. I think it's got a lot of the key lessons of product management in it, even though it's been around for a long time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And it also connects with this parenting book I'm reading called Listen, that a previous guest recommended, which is all about how your kids have problems when they feel like your connection to them is weak.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The only way I could really believe it is if you said, "Well, you could have a new startup that introspected all of the rules that are configured into a Salesforce to try and reverse engineer what your actual business processes are and then kind of operate on top of that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think people really underestimate where the value is created in these applications and they just kind of get it completely wrong, and I'm not sure why that is.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You always, either you try it and it just doesn't work or it eventually just peters out, I guess.”
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“I think if I could do it differently, I might not have necessarily been able to 100% change the decision, but I should have tried.”
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“Maybe a couple of different things that I think are sometimes well understood, but just repeating them I guess because they're very valuable to me.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Got it. This point you made about how a lot of times experiments show positive and then they end up not being anything, I had the head of growth from Shopify on the podcast, and they do this really cool thing where they keep holdouts for years of cohorts and then it auto emails them I think a year or two later, "Hey, check this and see if these cohorts, this is still higher or not.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that when you have leaders like that behind you and with you, then you're just unstoppable.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Oh, no, abseiling which is also, I think in the States you guys call it rappelling.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" Because certainly at some point it isn't just about the money and at the end of the day product management is so damn fun because it's about trying to figure out an edge. It's like trying to look at the world, find the portion of the chessboard that isn't occupied, but that is valuable and find a way to get into it, invade it and destroy it.”
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“LLMs let you get to that really, really, really quickly in a very structured way, but only if you push at the edges, provoke the answers you don't want to hear, provoke the problems, try and prove to yourself that you are wrong, I think is the easiest way to start trying to use some of these tools.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The job is not about execution or anything, it's about finding reliable, differentiated value that you can uniquely deliver into the market. So I would say if there's one thing, two things I would say actually that I generally guide product managers to do, one is to always start from the point of view outside the building in every document in everything, always talk from the customer's perspective, from the market's perspective, from the competitor's perspective, and the people who listen to me on that I would say get better almost immediately because they're starting from a place that's easier to understand and then secondarily be data informed.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“No, mostly I find that the straight-up LLMs themselves are good enough and we do have some internal tooling that we built around, I don't know if you've ever had Sachin Rekhi on the show, you may have.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think we're pretty privileged to be able to operate at that intersection, but it's not easy because you got to show value.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because you just basically you're reading back what you want to hear or some weird summarized version of what you want to hear. But stepping back from all of that, what I like to do specifically getting to LLMs is I think that we live in just the most amazing time for product managers right now in terms of being able to analyze vast quantities of information and see the common threads.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I used to very much about technical correctness and what computers were capable of, and technical righteousness, the right answer rather than there is only one right answer and whatever.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I can't describe how good it is. And I don't say this lightly because I think search, like business search is probably one of the hardest problems in computing.”
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“It had been in market for two years, and we found ourselves with a customer who wanted to pay millions of dollars for it. They were ready to sign on the dotted line, and that was actually the moment we decided to kill the product because we were like, "If this person signs this piece of paper, we are stuck with this forever.”
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“The worst case scenario is I've learned something new that I will never use, which I guess at least that made my brain slightly more agile.”
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