Category Product Management & Growth

How to Hire Product Managers

No one is perfect, but hiring for the absence of weaknesses will lead you to hire average PMs who don’t stand out at all. Sérgio Schüler Hiring PMs is a pain. I had a conversation with other 5 product beasts…

Amazon’s 6-page memos; How does it work?

Why memos over Powerpoint? Amazon famously has execs write 6-page narrative-driven memos instead of Powerpoint decks. The practice began in 2004 when Jeff Bezos noticed nothing was being decided after 60-minute long meetings with his inner circle (AKA S-Team). 1/…

How to Interview a Product Manager

There’s a lot of confusion on evaluating a candidate’s Product Sense in interviews. So let’s analyze bad, good, great answers to an interview question: “Why do threads on Twitter typically get more engagement than a tweet that links to a…

6 Product Frameworks From Tony Fadell, the Inventor of the iPod, iPhone & Nest

Tony Fadell on product design do's and don'ts.

1. “What do you see?”  It is in our human nature to stop seeing what’s right in front of us.

2. “For truly great designs, 50% of the design is the design. 50% of the design is the story behind the design.”

3. Create your constraints  

4. Find Your Product Development Heartbeat

5. What A World-Changing Founder Looks Like

6. Be A Troublemaker