15 years in PM | From PM to VP of Product | Ex-Google, Fortnite, Affirm, Apollo
Modified version originally published in Master the Meta. Just a few weeks into the year, we already have our first hit game of 2022. As Emily Coleman said, “Wordle is the sourdough starter of Omicron.” In a world of increasing social disconnection and outside-the-home chaos, Wordle has been a comforting, participate-with-other social gaming phenomenon. The simple […]
A Collaboration with Productify Product people are both lovers and haters of experiments. On the one hand, they are great at helping measure the result of changes. On the other hand, launching anything as an experiment takes more analytics and engineering work, and typically also slows down forward progress. If you already have a vision […]
Brian Armstrong just bought one of the most expensive homes in the state of California. For $133M, his modern Bel Air mansion is now one of the priciest single-family home transactions ever. The self-confessed “on the spectrum” (of Autism) CEO has managed to become one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, as well as one of […]
5 common problems with creators who aren’t growing: 1. Content is all over the place. Have a consistent through line in your messages and work. Build an expectation with your audience. Don’t talk about food, buddha, PM, and AC Milan together. A master throughliner to model off of is Teresa Torres. 2. Content volume isn’t high […]
Product Twitter is one of the most underrated resources to improving your PM career. Every list has a bunch of men on it. Women built PM and are responsible for pushing it forward. 15 of my favorite follows: @jackiebo: The woman who has gotten millions into product. Author of Cracking the PM Interview and previously […]
Six months ago, OpenSea raised at a $1.5B valuation. Today, it just raised at a $13.3B valuation. NFTs are a massive business. Here is OpenSea’s yearly transaction volume. It takes 2.5% of that volume, generating the revenue in the pictured line chart. 2018: $474K2019: $8M2020: $24M2021: $15B We’re only a few days into 2022, but […]
1.275 billion dollars, all cash. When news hit two weeks ago that the lending company owned by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert was buying the personal finance app Truebill, heads turned. It was an eye-popping sum for a company that just 6 months earlier raised a series D at a $500M valuation. Did Truebill deserve […]
Have you ever told a relative what you do, only to receive a puzzled look? Product management, as a field, is new. Our parent’s generation didn’t even consider it. Your average non-techie has no idea what it is even about. How did Product Management as a job come to be? Has it always been around, […]
Have you tried to buy an NFT lately? Ethereum users have been crippled by high gas fees and slow transactions. One of the original dreams of cryptocurrencies was transactions. That was the “point” of internet money. Yet, making a transaction on Bitcoin or Ethereum takes ages. And costs you a fortune. Major NFT traders like […]
I read 42 books this year. Not a single one made the ten best things I read. In 2021, online writing on blogs is the highest quality information available. Far better than anything you’ll get from watching the news or reading the mainstream media. So, what were the 10 best things I read in 2021? […]