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hey! Anthony here. This is my full interview with Linda Zhang. From 2018 to 2020, Linda was a Product Manager at Faire. She recently turned down a $375k offer from Instagram to launch her own product education company, Product Lessons.
We talked about a lot, including:
๐ธ Rejecting a $375k offer from Instagram.
๐ Going from PM โ Entrepreneur
๐ Advice for early career PMs
๐ฅ And lots more!
Hereโs Linda Zhang:
๐ฌ Full Interview
Hereโs the full video of the 58 min interview along with the transcript (link)
โ๏ธ Snippets
Canโt watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:
Clip #1
๐ Advice for early career PMs (2m 48s) (link)
Clip #2
๐ 3 mistakes sheโs learned from, such as managing expectations of managers and peers (5m 26s) (link)
Clip #3
๐ Most important things sheโs learned about product/growth from Faire and since starting Product Lessons (5m 16s) (link)
Clip #4
๐ง Linda talks about the opportunity cost and how to communicate the tradeoffs involved between various efforts (2m 18s) (link).
๐ง Audio
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You can find Linda on Twitter & Product Lessons
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hey! Anthony here. This is my full interview with Ada Yeo. Before starting her consumer social app, Shuffle, and before landing in last yearโs Forbes 30 under 30 list โAda was a Product Manager at Coinbase. Before that, she was a PM at Earn.com (another crypto company).
We talked about a lot, including:
๐ How she led a team of 12 at Coinbase to scale a product to $100M GMV in 12 months
๐ค How she closed $1.2M in sales in just 9 months at Earn
๐ฐ Lessons she learned from raising $2M from VCs for Shuffle
๐ฅ And lots more!
Hereโs Ada Yeo:
๐ฌ Full Interview
Hereโs the full video of the 43 min interview along with the transcript (link)
โ๏ธ Snippets
Canโt watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:
Clip #1
๐ Ada talks about a growth tip sheโs learned: loops > funnels (1m 18s) (link)
Clip #2
๐ Ada talks about how she approaches finding product-market fit (1m 25s) (link)
Clip #3
๐ Ada recalls a few mistakes sheโs learned from (2m 01s) (link)
Clip #4
๐ Ada describes what her day-to-day was like at Coinbase and Earn (3m 10s) (link)
Clip #5
๐ Adaโs advice to people that want to break into product (2m 29s) (link)
๐ง Audio
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You can find Ada on Twitter & LinkedIn
Thanks for reading Issue #10 of PM News
Iโm Anthony โYou can find me on Twitter โข LinkedIn โข My Blog
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hey! Anthony here. This is my full interview with Sanil Rajput. Sanil Rajput is a recent grad from UC Berkeley. For the past 9 months, Sanil has been a Product Manager at Microsoft working on AI research. Before that, he was an APM at Roblox working on Machine Learning products.
We talked about a lot, including:
๐ His experiences being a PM at Microsoft and an APM at Roblox.
๐ผ His advice on how to break into product
๐ข Working at a startup vs big company
๐ฅ And lots more!
Hereโs Sanil Rajput:
๐ฌ Full Interview
Hereโs the full video of the 31 min interview along with the transcript (link).
โ๏ธ Snippets
Canโt watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:
Clip #1
๐ค Sanil recalls a few mistakes heโs made at Microsoft and what heโs learned from them. He also gives advice that for new PMs a few months into their roles. (1m 54s)
Clip #2
๐ Sanil drops some advice for how to break into product. (2m 16s)
๐ง Audio
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You can find Sanil on Twitter & LinkedIn
Thanks for reading Issue #8 of PM News
Iโm Anthony โYou can find me on Twitter โข LinkedIn โข My Blog
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I talked to Lenny Rachitsky, former PM @ Airbnb. We talked about growth strategies, how he led Airbnb to a huge product change, and good product management. (Full audio included)
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