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Discover connections between concepts, frameworks, books, and guests from Lenny's conversations with product leaders, founders, and operators.
Discover connections between concepts, frameworks, books, and guests from Lenny's conversations with product leaders, founders, and operators.
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The state when a product satisfies strong market demand, evidenced by organic growth and retention. A critical milestone for startups that can be lost and must be recaptured as markets evolve.
The discipline of guiding a product's strategy, development, and launch based on customer needs and business goals.
Growth strategy where the product itself drives user acquisition, activation, and retention
Breaking down complex problems into fundamental truths and reasoning from there
Core differentiator of Amazon focusing on customer needs above all else
A framework claiming customers 'hire' products to fulfill specific jobs.
Method of comparing two versions to determine which performs better
Embracing failure as learning opportunities rather than personal shortcomings
A comprehensive approach to setting goals, deploying strategy, and connecting team work to business outcomes
A person who takes initiative, finds ways around obstacles, and doesn't wait for permission or perfect conditions to act
CEO · Airbnb
Co-founder · Apple
Founder and CEO · Amazon
CEO · Tesla
CEO · OpenAI
CEO · Meta
Co-founder · Y Combinator
Co-founder and CEO · Stripe
CEO · Coda
Co-founder · Andreessen Horowitz
Andy Grove
Bill Carr
Marty Cagan
Kim Scott
Daniel Kahneman
April Dunford
Roger Martin
Tony Fadell
Ben Horowitz
Claire Hughes Johnson
Objectives and Key Results system for goal setting that can replicate across company levels
Framework for understanding customer motivations by focusing on the job they're hiring a product to do
Five-day process: map, sketch, decide, prototype, test to validate ideas with customers
Root cause analysis technique used in engineering postmortems
Basecamp's product development methodology using 6-week cycles and appetite-based planning
Four key metrics for measuring software delivery performance: deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change fail rate
Technique for getting to root causes by asking why five times
Framework for measuring developer productivity across Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication/Collaboration, and Efficiency/Flow
Strategic framework identifying seven types of competitive advantages
Communication framework focusing on observations, feelings, and needs rather than judgments