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Lenny's Written Position

Shipping is not success; success is shipping work that has meaningful business impact, high ROI relative to alternatives, and moves you closer to your strategy.

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Great PMs build an aura of 'I have got this' by rarely dropping balls, coming prepared, and ensuring colleagues know that assigned tasks will get done.

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Podcast Moments

Richard Rumelt00:00:00
“We're going to go after this and here's the action steps we're going to take to do that. That's the essence of what you're doing when you're thinking strategically.”

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt · Richard Rumelt

Ethan Evans00:00:00
“People think invention takes all this time, but you only need two hours once a month. The thing is, once you have one good idea, it often takes years to express that.”

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon) · Ethan Evans 2.0

Varun Parmar00:00:00
“With every release that your competitor is making and every release that you're making, you are either making chess points, moves against them, positive points, or you're going negative.”

An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro) · Varun Parmar

Patrick Campbell00:00:00
“Real professionals ship. At the end of the day, real... I don't care if you're a marketer or a product person, engineer, ops person, people ops, real professionals ship, and they ship at a pretty high frequency. In my opinion, your tempo framework is more important than your org design. If you've ever had a team that seems really smart but they're always planning or don't really ship a lot, you probably don't have enough alignment on what good looks like in terms of tempo.”

10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell) · Patrick Campbell

Nickey Skarstad00:03:28
“Thank you. Thanks for having me.”

Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more · Nickey Skarstad

Brandon Chu00:15:00
“The habit that separates great PMs from good PMs is the ability to zoom out and zoom in. You need to be able to think about the 3-year vision and then immediately switch to thinking about the specific copy on a button. Most PMs are good at one but not both.”

Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid · Brandon Chu

Cutting Room Floor

Guest insights on this topic that Lenny hasn't (yet) written about in his newsletters. Potential material for future posts.

Richard RumeltUnsynthesized
“We're going to go after this and here's the action steps we're going to take to do that. That's the essence of what you're doing when you're thinking strategically.”

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt · Richard Rumelt

Ethan EvansUnsynthesized
“People think invention takes all this time, but you only need two hours once a month. The thing is, once you have one good idea, it often takes years to express that.”

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon) · Ethan Evans 2.0

Varun ParmarUnsynthesized
“With every release that your competitor is making and every release that you're making, you are either making chess points, moves against them, positive points, or you're going negative.”

An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro) · Varun Parmar

Patrick CampbellUnsynthesized
“Real professionals ship. At the end of the day, real... I don't care if you're a marketer or a product person, engineer, ops person, people ops, real professionals ship, and they ship at a pretty high frequency. In my opinion, your tempo framework is more important than your org design. If you've ever had a team that seems really smart but they're always planning or don't really ship a lot, you probably don't have enough alignment on what good looks like in terms of tempo.”

10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell) · Patrick Campbell

Nickey SkarstadUnsynthesized
“Thank you. Thanks for having me.”

Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more · Nickey Skarstad