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I do reporting on product news and tech news from a product lens. For instance: If you work in a tech company, I’d be interested in chatting about PM news like that. You can message me over Twitter (X) or LinkedIn. I have open profiles on both. We can chat off the record anonymously.

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References

These are the references for The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a PM version 2. Chapter 1: How to Find PM Roles for You Chapter 2: How to Nail the Resume Chapter 3: How to Rock the Cover Letter Chapter 4: How to Skip Applications and Get Interviews Chapter 5: The Key Tips Across Interviews Chapter […]

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PM Resume Templates That Work in 2024

Your resume template doesn’t need to be overly fancy. Instead, the key is the quality of your bullet points. This is my recommended resume template: Google Doc Why This Works There are several reasons you don’t want to have an overly designed resume template: How To Use It Here’s instead what you should focus on […]

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Growth Hacking History

The first major document where activation was mentioned was by Ken Leaver – A Short Course in Growth Hacking:

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To the person who had a perfectly reasonable request, I’m sorry to say the answer is no. It’s not you. It’s me. You were both respectful and within your rights. I’m taking after other creators like Ryan Holiday, Casey Neistat, and Justin Welsh who have to say no. I’m just exercising a bit of calendar […]

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Getting a Product Management (PM) job is tough. Whether you have experience or not. And in today’s market, it’s tougher than ever. With thousands of laid off big tech PMs on the market, the supply and demand dynamics are brutal. Experienced PMs are finding their recruiting funnels turned upside down. One Director of Product I […]

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These are the references for The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a PM version 1. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12

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The Reddit Story

Can you name Reddit’s CEO? Did you guess Alexis Ohanian? You would be wrong. The famous husband of Serena Williams has cultivated a larger internet personality than the other co-founder of Reddit who is the actual CEO.  That would be Steve Huffman. The same Steve who coded the entire site in Lisp in a few […]

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How TikTok Surpassed Snapchat and Netflix

If you add up the revenue of Twitter, Snapchat, Zoom, Lyft, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Spotify all together, it still wouldn’t be as big as Bytedance. The company is a behemoth. And Bytedance’s biggest product, by far, is TikTok. This year, TikTok crossed Twitter and Snapchat for US users.  Yet, as recently as two years ago, […]

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How Block Grew to $18B Revenue in 13 Years

“Thinking deeply about payments.” In 2008, this sounded like the job of companies like Visa and Mastercard.  But, in the end, the company that disrupted the merchant payment experience was a small upstart. After being fired from Twitter in 2008, Jack Dorsey came back with a new company that was thinking deeply about payments.  From […]