Lenny Rachitsky, a former Airbnb product lead and angel investor, writes a newsletter on product management, growth, and marketplaces.
HN commenters mention it in discussions of product roles and growth; one calls an article very simple, while others use it as a reference.
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Lenny was an early Growth PM at Airbnb after his company Local Mind was acquired and is now an angel investor/writer on product & growth at https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/. Lenny offers a unique perspective on product having founded his own company and helped guide Airbnb's product direction from early on.
Matt began his career at CAA building businesses for talent, later transitioned to Lowercase where he funded rocketship companies and is now at Coatue where he continues to invest rocketship companies. He brings a unique perspective on product having invested in some of the most successful products of all time.
We'll be talking all things product - you won't want to miss it!
Don't want to be mean but this is honestly a very simple article. This can be easily summarized as :
- A product manager's job is to decide how to build the product
- a PMM is to market it
- a PO is just a role inside a scrum team
I don't really agree with that, things are much more complex in reality, the PM and the PMM jobs is very different depending on the company you are working at.
If you want good content on the topic, there are these two blogs :
- https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/
- https://svpg.com/articles/
But they are very oriented toward B2C and B2B smb product management. If you want insights and are working in B2B enterprise, there is still not good resources on the topic, (I blog a bit about it, but not enough to be a reference)
Great book. A couple of others I’ve also found super helpful:
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (https://a.co/d/dRDXQtg)
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (https://a.co/d/aw73ped)
I’ve also found some good stuff in Lenny Rachitsky’s Podcast/Blog (https://www.lennyrachitsky.com)