Beginner Lessons

Perfect if you find business books too textbook-y / boring

This solves one of the oldest problems known to humans 🤯

It saved 3-4 weeks of potentially life-threatening work 🤯 Marily Nika is an AI Product Lead at Meta

AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)

If you want to learn AI fundamentals, watch to the end! Marily Nika is an AI Product Lead at Meta

Such a fun tradition + they actually execute on a few of the best ideas

Eeke de Milliano was a Product Lead at Stripe and is now a Head of Product at Retool

How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)

Eeke de Milliano is a Head of Product at Retool and former Product Lead at Stripe

Optimistic & persistent, but still realistic about the problems you need to solve in the day-to-day

Little things that help people trust startups. Zoelle is Head of Marketing & Growth at Block Party

Marketing & customer success are basically the same, says Zoelle Egner, Head of Marketing at Box

What PR is and isn't good for according to Zoelle Egner, Head of Marketing and Growth at Box

“Spicy and uncomfortable” book for a person in tech to read

Zoelle Egner was employee number 11 at Airtable #startup #founder

What founders underestimate about brand. Zoelle Egner is Head of Marketing & Growth at Block Party

Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner

Maybe swag isn’t always a red flag? 😅

Vijay Iyengar is a Head of Product at Mixpanel

Vijay Iyengar is a Head of Product at Mixpanel

This probably breaks a few product principles you’re used to hearing

All the tools available to startups nowadays have really levelled the playing field

Countless guests have made the same recommendation

So many guests from the world’s top tech companies have recommended April’s advice on positioning

Countless guests from the world’s top tech companies have recommended April’s advice on positioning

So you need to have a clear picture of who your audience is

The video of him revealing it 😅

How to nail your product positioning | April Dunford (Obviously Awesome)

An amazing way to get you thinking about strategy and prioritisation

How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

The advantage startups have over big companies

If you’ve ever felt like you’re learning so much yet so little at the same time…

This has been one of the most popular reccomendations across all my guests

What do you think? Luck or skill?

This can be the difference between values that feel like a show, and values that really take hold

Has John got a point here?

What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (The Beautiful Mess)

There are many different ways to lead, and this is how you figure out yours

What if your product is worth 10x more than you think right now?

This research speaks for itself

A better pricing structure could be the easiest way to grow your company right now

How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)

It’s scary but you just gotta do it

Evernote was kind of like Notion before Notion, so why didn’t it reach the same heights?

Yuhki seems very suspicious of any OKRs that miss some of these

Incase you needed another reminder that you should be dogfooding

If this simple approach is good enough for Figma, it’s surely good enough for your team too!

An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)