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Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)

Brought to you by: • Uizard—AI-powered prototyping for visionary product leaders • Mercury—The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Bangaly Kaba was an early growth PM at Facebook, head of growth at Instagram, and VP of Product at Instacart and is currently Director of Product at YouTube overseeing a global team working on creator monetization. Bangaly has also been a growth advisor to dozens of companies, including Twitter, on the board of multiple companies, and is an active angel investor. In our conversation, we discuss:

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On saying no

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more help, check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs of Product),

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Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack)

Brought to you by: • Sidebar—Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers • Webflow—The web experience platform • Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security — Kenneth Berger coaches startup leaders on how to prevent burnout, advocate for their desired lifestyle, and make a meaningful impact on the world. He’s spent more than 20 years in the tech industry, is a former founder backed by top investors, and was the first product manager at Slack. Kenneth’s core mission is to help startup leaders change the world by learning to ask for what they want, living with integrity, and building genuine relationships even with the people they find most challenging. Currently he is writing a book,

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Podcast duration: 73.6 minutes

Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)

Brought to you by: • WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Mercury—The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster — Jag Duggal is chief product officer at Nubank, a decacorn neobank founded in Brazil. It’s valued at over $30 billion, is bigger than Coinbase, Robinhood, Affirm, and SoFi combined, has 100 million customers (more than Bank of America!) while only operating in three countries in Latin America, and 80% to 90% of its growth comes through word of mouth. Prior to Nubank, Jag was a director of product management at Facebook, a senior vice president at Quantcast, and a product leader at Google. In our conversation, we discuss:

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Podcast duration: 95.3 minutes

The art of the pivot, part 2: How, why, and when to pivot

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Q: How do I know if I should pivot or stay the course?

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A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)

Brought to you by: • Uizard—AI-powered prototyping for visionary product leaders • Webflow—The web experience platform • Coda—The all-in-one collaborative workspace — Vikrama Dhiman heads all things product at Gojek, including product management, design, program management, and research, across Indonesia, Singapore and India. He has over 16 years of experience building internet products, consults with Fortune 500 companies, and is among the most well-known and respected product leaders in all of Asia. In our conversation, we discuss:

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Podcast duration: 72.3 minutes

The art of the pivot, part 1: The definitive list of successful pivots

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. 🚨🙏 Please take my first-ever reader survey 🙏🚨 I’ve never run a reader survey in the five years of writing this newsletter. It’s time!

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Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

Brought to you by: • WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security • Paragon—Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Hamilton Helmer is one of the world’s leading experts on business strategy and the author of the seminal book

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Podcast duration: 68.1 minutes

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)

Brought to you by: • Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security. • UserTesting—Human understanding. Human experiences. • LinkedIn Ads—Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, a decision-making expert, and a special partner at First Round Capital. She is the author of

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Podcast duration: 81.0 minutes

How Perplexity builds product

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month:

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