We talked about a lot, including:

* 💸 Rejecting a $375k offer from Instagram.

* 😄 Going from PM → Entrepreneur

* 🛠 Advice for early career PMs

* 🔥 And lots more!

Here’s Linda Zhang:

🎬 Full Interview

Here’s the full video of the 58 min interview along with the transcript (link)

✂️ Snippets

Can’t watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:

Clip #1

🌟 Advice for early career PMs (2m 48s) (link)

Clip #2

🌟 3 mistakes she’s learned from, such as managing expectations of managers and peers (5m 26s) (link)

Clip #3

🌟 Most important things she’s learned about product/growth from Faire and since starting Product Lessons (5m 16s) (link)

Clip #4

🧠 Linda talks about the opportunity cost and how to communicate the tradeoffs involved between various efforts (2m 18s) (link).

🎧 Audio

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You can find Linda on Twitter & Product Lessons

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We talked about a lot, including:

* 📈 How she led a team of 12 at Coinbase to scale a product to $100M GMV in 12 months

* 🤝 How she closed $1.2M in sales in just 9 months at Earn

* 💰 Lessons she learned from raising $2M from VCs for Shuffle

* 🔥 And lots more!

Here’s Ada Yeo:

🎬 Full Interview

Here’s the full video of the 43 min interview along with the transcript (link)

✂️ Snippets

Can’t watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:

Clip #1

😄 Ada talks about a growth tip she’s learned: loops > funnels (1m 18s) (link)

Clip #2

😄 Ada talks about how she approaches finding product-market fit (1m 25s) (link)

Clip #3

😄 Ada recalls a few mistakes she’s learned from (2m 01s) (link)

Clip #4

😄 Ada describes what her day-to-day was like at Coinbase and Earn (3m 10s) (link)

Clip #5

😄 Ada’s advice to people that want to break into product (2m 29s) (link)

🎧 Audio

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You can find Ada on Twitter & LinkedIn

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We talked about a lot, including:

* 🛠 His experiences being a PM at Microsoft and an APM at Roblox.

* 💼 His advice on how to break into product

* 🏢 Working at a startup vs big company

* 🔥 And lots more!

Here’s Sanil Rajput:

🎬 Full Interview

Here’s the full video of the 31 min interview along with the transcript (link).

✂️ Snippets

Can’t watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:

Clip #1

🤔 Sanil recalls a few mistakes he’s made at Microsoft and what he’s learned from them. He also gives advice that for new PMs a few months into their roles. (1m 54s)

Clip #2

💎 Sanil drops some advice for how to break into product. (2m 16s)

🎧 Audio

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You can find Sanil on Twitter & LinkedIn

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We talked about a lot, including:

* ⚡️ He broke down the specific details on how he led a team of 80+ people to increase Airbnb’s instant bookings from 5% to 75%.

* ✏️ The most important and interesting things he’s learned about product since starting his newsletter.

* 🌱 His thoughts on growth and building a viral product.

* 🤕 Mistakes he’s learned from at Airbnb.

* 🔥 And lots more!

Here’s Lenny Rachitsky:

This week, instead of writing out snippets of the interview, I made them into short videos that you can watch below:

Clip #1

⚡️ Lenny breaks down how he led a team of 80+ people at Airbnb to make Airbnb’s booking completely instant.

Clip #2

🌱 Since starting his newsletter, Lenny’s learned that “growth is not as mysterious as a lot of people think…”

Hear the rest:

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💸 Lenny’s also learned that “[paid] growth is becoming more expensive” and “building a great product is becoming more important…”

Hear the rest:

Clip #4

👀 Another thing Lenny learned is that “you shouldn’t rely on one company’s example of how they grew or what they did right…”

Hear the rest:

Clip #5

🔥 Lenny shares his thoughts how to combat the rising cost of paid growth: “Build something remarkable.” Growth for today’s products rely on going viral.

Hear the rest:

Clip #6

📍An important lesson Lenny learned from working at Airbnb is to “push back on projects that you’re fairly confident are not going to work out…”

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Clip #7

🔥 Lenny’s hot take: “People think that the best PMs are the ones that write and tweet all day.” The best PMs are the ones that don’t have time for that because they’re actually doing the work.

Hear the rest:

Clip #8

✏️ How Lenny has been investing in the product of himself: “Writing.”

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Clip #9

🚀 Lenny explains why he’s not starting a company anytime soon.

Hear the rest:

🎧 Listen to the full 26 minute interview using the player above.

You can find Lenny on Twitter.

Also, subscribe his product newsletter, Lenny’s Newsletter.

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