"make sure you go somewhere where you have a good engineering partner because if you have great ideas of what to build but you can't get them built then you go nowhere so that has to be part of your ev..."

"yahoshua Tamar thank you so much for being here and welcome to the podcast thank you so much for having me I've had so many people recommend you coming on this podcast I'm really happy that we're fina..."

"in in tech jobs there's like table Stakes there's table Stakes of you need to be technical you need to know the latest technology you need to understand your product the product you're working on no m..."

"free at expo. Lenny that's ex. Lenny this episode is brought to you by sprig what if product teams knew exactly what to build to reach their goals from increasing conversion to boosting engagement the..."

"so how do you start transitioning so after you've done a great job at everything and you understand the the core skills that you need another thing you really need to know is understanding people and ..."

"motivating them I I love this advice and I feel like we could do a whole podcast on just this topic so on this last point about understanding people is there an example of this in either a product you..."

"your users are actually trying to achieve going back to your first point about doing a great job at the job you have I imagine some people hear this and the devices do a great job at the job you're al..."

"impact yeah amazing okay going in a different direction we were chatting before we started recording this and something that you shared with me and some people may be really surprised to hear this but..."

"working and one of the things I try and do is give a perspective of what matters and what doesn't and it might even be to the sales team because you get like all these requests for features all the ti..."

"professional managers and things are about the cost and executing and getting all the like once you get to like over 5,000 people or 10,000 people like you gotta have things that I mean then you're li..."

"case a lot of it is that because if you are in hypergrowth you've got customers coming at a really fast pace you're growing your company really quickly and the number of employees and it's just really..."

"problems strong product Market fit well no product Market fit is a desence let say it more like that like you can't like if you built a product that people aren't really excited to use then you don't ..."

"great okay another maybe contrarian opinion that you hold uh along the career track is that you don't need to plan your career I also 100% agree with this I had no plan for my career I never knew wher..."

"I go get an MBA or do I go work for somebody do I be a product manager or an engineer and those really take you in very different paths and I I meet a lot of kids in their shouldn't call them kids um ..."

"as much as you'd like you still have the those connections I mean everybody talks about the PayPal Mafia and how they've gone on to do things like I was super lucky to be at Google for so many years a..."

"thought uh yeah and it's it's really bad when you don't have the gravitational pull it's it's it's super hard I would say that one thing that if you're a manager I always advise managers go somewhere ..."

"the hardest to predict you know who's good you know who you want to work with you can predict where you're going to learn because even if a company fails you learn a lot but predicting financial succe..."

"that didn't do well and so then people will assume that every time I made a job change it was to a company that did well no that was not the case so if you if you focus on that learning bit you will g..."

"Amazon was known in the valley and and that this is another example I went there because I went to work for udy manbar who started A9 and he was talking to me one night trying to recruit me and he spe..."

"enables you to operate a large organization more effectively and then there's one other thing that I I really remember was a very one of the few really small meetings I was in with him and we were pre..."

"always part of his vision so he saw forward in the vision but he also was very much into the details and I think the thing that I learned from him the most was the power of prototyping and that even t..."

"catalyze your career 93% of members say sidebar helped them achieve a significant positive change in their career check them out at sidebar. c/ Lenny as a product leader how do you think about just th..."

"working faster but you need the engineering team to have the same mindset the product and Engineering have to work together and design because design is just in it in it as much and sometimes you can ..."

"unclear we would talk and we would say okay who's going to who's going to take this one and would do all our reviews together and so all of the okr reviews all of the we had weekly exec reviews um we ..."

"you talked about being a which I love and I fully have seen that power of that of you and your engine manager design manager being aligned on and you tell me if I'm wrong but specifically on what goal..."

"sometimes there would be there'd be like five to 10 teams that we would then have a follow-up meeting with we would say there's things that we that this is like a really high priority project or there..."

"and so then were like we have to do something drastic and that's when we moved them to async it was also right after slack Clips launched I got it that's the video feature very cool and then I don't k..."

"then do it and deal with the people who are unhappy but the trick is you have to be respectful and you have to be transparent and you have to explain you have to go to people and say this is why we ma..."

"you just act you're authentic you listen to people and you're transparent it's so funny this reminds me of a book I'm reading a parenting book I'm reading right now that a former guest recommended cal..."

"think about like for the argument oh I'm too busy well if you use these products you're actually not gonna you're it's going to be leverage on your time so you get a lot of Articles sent to you summar..."

"and keep trying because the models that we have today can do a lot already yeah I love your example of the PM and what they did with the Discord Channel is there anything else along those lines that e..."

"weeks ago because we're advancing our prompting capabilities and so I was testing it out and I was like oh I could do this so that's like uh and that's another example and uh Engineers are using it fo..."

"yeah I think that just I think that beginning of the prompt is something a lot of people don't know is the power of just giving it a role like you are a product manager at glean from that perspective ..."

"statue shared is she's making six figures off this product that she builds on the weekends Chad PRD so cool incredible but it also shows what you can build with ey right it's just her I think she just..."

"more creative and I think designers and PMs are kind of going to blend because the best designers I've worked with are product thinkers and a lot of really good PMs can also design depends on the what..."

"obviously an example which integrates llms which innately are non-deterministic and hard to know if they're going to provide anything good sometimes something really dumb comes out do you have any adv..."

"it like a person you look to like hey what's new there are definitely like AI newsletters that I look at there's AI podcast that I listen to I now have a commute so in some ways that's good because I ..."

"summit.com awesome with that tomorrow we've reached our very exciting lightning round are you ready I am ready okay let's do this first question what are two three books that you have recommended most..."

"so that's on the kind of organizational leadership and one book I really liked was uh Team of Rivals uh it's a it's a book about Lincoln and putting together his cabinet in during the Civil War one I ..."