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🐳 Being rejected for @lennysan Lenny Fellowship to Getting on Lenny’s List 🚀 In April, my wife and I sat in a hotel room in Scotland for 48 hrs working on my application for Lenny’s Fellowship instead of enjoying our vacation. Unfortunately, I was one of the 1597 people who did not get the Lenny’s Fellowship. I was bummed when I found that out. I kept my head down and created two new courses since then: Uplevel Your Product Thinking (4.9/5) and PM Interview Bootcamp (5/5). Adding to my original top rated course Influence Without Authority (4.8/5). And I am launching a new course "Accelerate Your PM Career" in Nov. Today Lenny recognized my course “Uplevel Your Product Thinking” as one of the Top 6 product course recommendations in Lenny’s List in partnership with @MavenHQ & @gaganbiyani. And lenny followed me on Twitter today. 🙂 x.com/lennysan/statu… I’m a huge fan of Lenny’s and have a ton of respect for what he does for the Product Community. And I am incredible proud and grateful to be on this list curated by Lenny Rachitsky. Check out my top rated courses: 📗 Uplevel Your Product Thinking (Lenny's List): maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 PM Interview Bootcamp: maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 Influence Without Authority: maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 Accelerate Your PM Career: maven.com/crossing-caree… And finally I have immense gratitude of all of the early adopters of my courses. You all know who you are and I hope I have told you this enough times in person! 🙂

I left my PM role at Meta building AI Agents. I gave up $750K in compensation. 99% of people would kill for my role. So why did I choose to leave? My 6 years at Meta have greatly exceeded my expectations! ❤️ I built products on the FB, IG, MSGR, WA apps across consumer, advertiser, well-being and AI first products. ❤️ People at Meta have a unique combination of immense kindness, world class talent and insane ambition. That makes the place magical. ❤️ Every product I worked on had meaningful impact on an insanely large number of people & businesses. And then I got the opportunity to be the founding PM for AI Agents. It brought me back to my roots in AI. It was a wide open product space. The team would work closely with Zuck. It was a career defining role - yet I decided to leave Meta! My career journey has been about continuously (Re)Defining my Mission. When I look back my personal mission, it looked like this: 💚 2002 - 2010: Build cool technology (CV Research & Eng at Startup) 💚 2011 - 2017: Build products that people want (PM @ Yahoo & Yelp) 💚 2017 - 2022: Build products that makes people's life better (PM @ Meta) I restated my mission again based on challenges I faced between 2011 & 2017. My gaps in leadership skills led to slower career growth. I took a long path to figuring out what skills I needed and how to develop them. Developing these skills unlocked my potential at Meta. I now want to accelerate this journey for others. 💚 New Mission: Build products that help people cross career chasms and reach their potential 💚 Goal: Change the career trajectory of 1M people by helping them improve leadership skills I took the first step by launching the Influence Without Authority course last October. 28 people signed up for the course, rated it 9.8/10 and wrote great feedback. But I went back into the fun, high visibility, intense work of Meta AI Agents right after. During down time, I would be unhappy that I hadn’t made more progress towards my personal mission in months. And this kept repeating again and again Until one day Priya (my wife) said “If you have one of the best PM roles at Meta and you still can’t stop thinking about your personal mission, maybe it is time to leave.” At the same time people started to reach out and tell me that the course was having positive impact. Two things stand out: 🎄 One of the people from Cohort 1 shared that they got promoted to Director by applying the principles from the class. 🎄 Another person who took the course in Cohort 1 sent their spouse to take the course in Cohort 5. And it was time to go All In! I’ll continue to teach the Influence Without Authority course lnkd.in/gmMkZ9cW. Cohort 6 is on Dec 9th & 10th. I will develop content, community, and products to help people grow skills across the leadership skills pyramid. I have immense gratitude to you all for your support. I wouldn't have had the courage to take this leap without your support!

My hunch is that Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas is trying to get acquired by MSFT / AAPL / META for $2-10B in the next few months vs actually trying to compete and win against Google. Even though Google had a great product it won the distribution game due to a series of missteps by Yahoo and Microsoft through search syndication and google toolbar. Perplexity needs a distribution lever to win and google/apple/microsoft won’t make the same mistakes. So perplexity can grind it out and see if they can eke out market share or get bought by folks who already have distribution! Based on the types of tweets taunting google, my assumption is that he is appealing to MSFT / APPL / META leadership to open their checkbooks!

If you want to up level your leadership skills in 2023, here is a breakdown of key skills into a leadership skills pyramid. Identify the skills you think are holding you back and invest in developing them. Here is a list of ~200 books organized by topics. lnkd.in/d-cwQAbY

The ability to “Influence Without Authority” makes or breaks careers. It determines who gets impactful projects, who gets promoted and has significant financial impact. Learn about ways to improve your organizational influence. Free Webinar on Dec 28th lu.ma/uo16anqk

Yesterday I shared my 2024 retrospective for my first full year as a solopreneur after leaving Meta and how I completed the @stephsmithio challenge. Today I will share how I am throwing away last year’s playbook to take on a 10X harder challenge the @levelsio challenge. In 2025, I don’t want to be a full time teacher, or full time content creator or a media mogul. I want to be a product builder! An operator that people can learn from and shares the same playbook they are using to build products. So I am going to turn my priorities upside down, put my course business growth on the line, and reinvent myself to go after this challenge. 2025 Plans: 🌲 Goal 1: Build 5 products that make at least $100K each in 2025 (total of at least $500K), ideally in the professional education space while exploring my curiosity in other industries. 🌲 Goal 2: Build a high trust community of 100K people (ideally newsletter / podcast subscribers) 🌲 Goal 3: High impact on x00 peoples’ careers using existing courses to make $200K - $500K in revenue between live, on demand and company specific cohorts 🌲 Goal 4: Create a new AI course that forces me to invest 50% of my time in AI Tradeoffs: 🤝 I am willing to make significantly lower money via courses to place a bet on my ability to build products in 2025. The big change Im making is to teach live courses only once or twice this year. 🤝 I will teach a few company specific cohorts for product thinking, execution and influence without authority / leadership courses at the request of product leaders who know me well and want me to help them grow their teams fast. 🤝 Further I want spend 50% of my time on AI in 2025 and will ensure my product & course work reflect that. Why 5 products and not 1. ⚡ My goal with 2025 is to just get comfortable building. ⚡ I just want to build products that add value to people lives and they are willing to pay me for. ⚡It sounds less ambitious in some ways and massively ambitious in others. But this is the way I want to do it. Podcast 💚 I am going to do a limited edition series called Crossing Career Chasms OR Hockey Stick Careers. I want to interview 20 senior product leaders whose careers look like hockey sticks on LinkedIn (Eg: 8-10 years from R/PM to VP at Meta) and talk about the career chasms / growth struggles they faced. 💚 I want to normalize the fact that even people who seemingly had exponential careers felt stuck in their careers at times. They needed to work on growth areas intentionally and needed support. Newsletters 💚 There is a lot of product management content but not enough product content. I am going to start a newsletter that is focused on two things 1) learn about great products 2) ideas for products that should exist. Publishing your strategy is dumb. Why are you doing it? 👺 As a solopreneur there is no urgency. My MO for creating urgency is to make public commitments and then work my ass off to meet them. So yeah you are all going to push me to e successful where you support me or are waiting for a train wreck! :-) Links: 2024 Retro: x.com/satishmreddy/s… Step Smith Challenge: x.com/satishmreddy/s…

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Paul Graham's Founder Mode Essay was more polarizing than US politics. Yet, nothing about “Founder mode” was NEW. Both Founders and Non-Founders at Yahoo, Yelp & Meta used it in their organizations, when I worked there. So why was the essay so polarizing? @paulg spoke negatively about 99% of tech employees who choose to support founders in their quest to build great companies. That is why this post was polarizing. Here are the comments Paul Makes about employees (Non-Founders): 👺Hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground 👺Founders feel like they're being gaslit from both sides — …: and by the people working for them….. 👺 C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world. Paul called employees at tech companies “Professional Fakers”, “Gas light founders”, “Skillfull liars”. That is why the post polarized people. There is nothing new in the founder mode essay: 🟢Skip Level 1:1s: I have had skip level 1:1s for the 12 years I worked at Yahoo, Yelp, and Meta. I have had 1:1s with people two levels above me if I wanted to. 🟢Execs in details: No exec I worked with every treated key product decisions as a blackbox. All execs at Meta are in the details of the top priorities of the org and Mark has very publicly said he does the same. @marissamayer when she joined Yahoo did weekly product reviews for every detail of product redesigns. 🟢ICs presenting to CEOs and Exec: As an IC I did reviews with @jeremys (Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO), Zuck, @tomalison (Tom Alison FB App Head), @mosseri (Adam Mosseri IG App Head), @stan_chudnovsky (Messenger App Head), Will Cathcart (@wcathcart WhatsApp App Head) 🟢Leadership Retreats: Yelp and Meta both had leadership groups that included people at different levels across the company that didn’t report to the CEO. These are just basic good leadership practices. 🙂 There is nothing new in founder mode essay that good leaders don’t already do, where they are a founder or NOT! The thing that made the “founder mode” essay go viral is pitting Founders against the very employees they need to build large companies. There is NO "Management Mode", there is just "Good Leadership" and "Bad Leadership". What Paul describes is "Bad Leadership" mode. Bad leadership when displayed by founders and non founders leads to poor outcomes. And maybe @bchesky talk at YC was just his journey of figuring out Good Leadership at scale.

⚡ I am doing 4 Lightning Lessons on @MavenHQ in the next two months! I participated in the pilot program a month ago with some amazing folks like @joulee @AnnieDuke @wes_kao @EthanEvansVP @andrewchen @alliekmiller @gaganbiyani. And I am going to be doing a lot more of them the rest of the year! Here are the 4 lightning lessons: 1. Uplevel Your Product Thinking Skills on May 18th: maven.com/p/ab540c/uplev… 2. How to Influence Without Authority on May 29th: maven.com/p/99aac3/how-t… 3. How to build a strong manager relationship on June 15th: maven.com/p/9af34d/how-t… 4. Maintaining a positive mindset during job search on June 29th: maven.com/p/418e61/maint… My goal with each of these is to provide actionable tips that people can apply right away and see results! Would love to see you in some of these sessions. Thank you Maven team Chelsea Wilson, Runqiu (Rachel) Cai, Kim Kadiyala, Mickey Slevin, Rishin Banker, Shreyans Bhansali for the awesome launch!

🐳 Being rejected for @lennysan Lenny Fellowship to Getting on Lenny’s List 🚀 In April, my wife and I sat in a hotel room in Scotland for 48 hrs working on my application for Lenny’s Fellowship instead of enjoying our vacation. Unfortunately, I was one of the 1597 people who did not get the Lenny’s Fellowship. I was bummed when I found that out. I kept my head down and created two new courses since then: Uplevel Your Product Thinking (4.9/5) and PM Interview Bootcamp (5/5). Adding to my original top rated course Influence Without Authority (4.8/5). And I am launching a new course "Accelerate Your PM Career" in Nov. Today Lenny recognized my course “Uplevel Your Product Thinking” as one of the Top 6 product course recommendations in Lenny’s List in partnership with @MavenHQ & @gaganbiyani. And lenny followed me on Twitter today. 🙂 x.com/lennysan/statu… I’m a huge fan of Lenny’s and have a ton of respect for what he does for the Product Community. And I am incredible proud and grateful to be on this list curated by Lenny Rachitsky. Check out my top rated courses: 📗 Uplevel Your Product Thinking (Lenny's List): maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 PM Interview Bootcamp: maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 Influence Without Authority: maven.com/crossing-caree… 📗 Accelerate Your PM Career: maven.com/crossing-caree… And finally I have immense gratitude of all of the early adopters of my courses. You all know who you are and I hope I have told you this enough times in person! 🙂

I left my PM role at Meta building AI Agents. I gave up $750K in compensation. 99% of people would kill for my role. So why did I choose to leave? My 6 years at Meta have greatly exceeded my expectations! ❤️ I built products on the FB, IG, MSGR, WA apps across consumer, advertiser, well-being and AI first products. ❤️ People at Meta have a unique combination of immense kindness, world class talent and insane ambition. That makes the place magical. ❤️ Every product I worked on had meaningful impact on an insanely large number of people & businesses. And then I got the opportunity to be the founding PM for AI Agents. It brought me back to my roots in AI. It was a wide open product space. The team would work closely with Zuck. It was a career defining role - yet I decided to leave Meta! My career journey has been about continuously (Re)Defining my Mission. When I look back my personal mission, it looked like this: 💚 2002 - 2010: Build cool technology (CV Research & Eng at Startup) 💚 2011 - 2017: Build products that people want (PM @ Yahoo & Yelp) 💚 2017 - 2022: Build products that makes people's life better (PM @ Meta) I restated my mission again based on challenges I faced between 2011 & 2017. My gaps in leadership skills led to slower career growth. I took a long path to figuring out what skills I needed and how to develop them. Developing these skills unlocked my potential at Meta. I now want to accelerate this journey for others. 💚 New Mission: Build products that help people cross career chasms and reach their potential 💚 Goal: Change the career trajectory of 1M people by helping them improve leadership skills I took the first step by launching the Influence Without Authority course last October. 28 people signed up for the course, rated it 9.8/10 and wrote great feedback. But I went back into the fun, high visibility, intense work of Meta AI Agents right after. During down time, I would be unhappy that I hadn’t made more progress towards my personal mission in months. And this kept repeating again and again Until one day Priya (my wife) said “If you have one of the best PM roles at Meta and you still can’t stop thinking about your personal mission, maybe it is time to leave.” At the same time people started to reach out and tell me that the course was having positive impact. Two things stand out: 🎄 One of the people from Cohort 1 shared that they got promoted to Director by applying the principles from the class. 🎄 Another person who took the course in Cohort 1 sent their spouse to take the course in Cohort 5. And it was time to go All In! I’ll continue to teach the Influence Without Authority course lnkd.in/gmMkZ9cW. Cohort 6 is on Dec 9th & 10th. I will develop content, community, and products to help people grow skills across the leadership skills pyramid. I have immense gratitude to you all for your support. I wouldn't have had the courage to take this leap without your support!

My hunch is that Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas is trying to get acquired by MSFT / AAPL / META for $2-10B in the next few months vs actually trying to compete and win against Google. Even though Google had a great product it won the distribution game due to a series of missteps by Yahoo and Microsoft through search syndication and google toolbar. Perplexity needs a distribution lever to win and google/apple/microsoft won’t make the same mistakes. So perplexity can grind it out and see if they can eke out market share or get bought by folks who already have distribution! Based on the types of tweets taunting google, my assumption is that he is appealing to MSFT / APPL / META leadership to open their checkbooks!

If you want to up level your leadership skills in 2023, here is a breakdown of key skills into a leadership skills pyramid. Identify the skills you think are holding you back and invest in developing them. Here is a list of ~200 books organized by topics. lnkd.in/d-cwQAbY

The ability to “Influence Without Authority” makes or breaks careers. It determines who gets impactful projects, who gets promoted and has significant financial impact. Learn about ways to improve your organizational influence. Free Webinar on Dec 28th lu.ma/uo16anqk

Inspired by @stephsmithio pre-sales and tiered pricing launch of Internet Pipes, I launched a Product Thinking course a week ago and had 275 purchases in first week. Thank you @stephsmithio I also have 10% the audience as Steph. But as @ShaanVP says “Be known well instead of being well known.” 3 years of adding value to a small set of people built trust in the quality of material that they expect me to produce and pre-purchase. Light weight course page: crossingcareerchasms.com/product-thinki… Stripe checkout: buy.stripe.com/28o6qVagn7X828… Tiered Pricing Model Details: 💚 I expect the course to be priced at $950 by Dec 2024 after a couple of iterations. But people can buy it now for 30% of that price - $300. The full tiered pricing will be as follows, based on the date by which people purchase by: 🔰 Mar 10th: $300 🔰 Apr 1st: $400 🔰 May 1st: $500 🔰 Jun 1st (Launch day): $600 🔰 Oct 1: $750 🔰 After Oct 1st: $950

Paul Graham's Founder Mode Essay was more polarizing than US politics. Yet, nothing about “Founder mode” was NEW. Both Founders and Non-Founders at Yahoo, Yelp & Meta used it in their organizations, when I worked there. So why was the essay so polarizing? @paulg spoke negatively about 99% of tech employees who choose to support founders in their quest to build great companies. That is why this post was polarizing. Here are the comments Paul Makes about employees (Non-Founders): 👺Hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground 👺Founders feel like they're being gaslit from both sides — …: and by the people working for them….. 👺 C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world. Paul called employees at tech companies “Professional Fakers”, “Gas light founders”, “Skillfull liars”. That is why the post polarized people. There is nothing new in the founder mode essay: 🟢Skip Level 1:1s: I have had skip level 1:1s for the 12 years I worked at Yahoo, Yelp, and Meta. I have had 1:1s with people two levels above me if I wanted to. 🟢Execs in details: No exec I worked with every treated key product decisions as a blackbox. All execs at Meta are in the details of the top priorities of the org and Mark has very publicly said he does the same. @marissamayer when she joined Yahoo did weekly product reviews for every detail of product redesigns. 🟢ICs presenting to CEOs and Exec: As an IC I did reviews with @jeremys (Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO), Zuck, @tomalison (Tom Alison FB App Head), @mosseri (Adam Mosseri IG App Head), @stan_chudnovsky (Messenger App Head), Will Cathcart (@wcathcart WhatsApp App Head) 🟢Leadership Retreats: Yelp and Meta both had leadership groups that included people at different levels across the company that didn’t report to the CEO. These are just basic good leadership practices. 🙂 There is nothing new in founder mode essay that good leaders don’t already do, where they are a founder or NOT! The thing that made the “founder mode” essay go viral is pitting Founders against the very employees they need to build large companies. There is NO "Management Mode", there is just "Good Leadership" and "Bad Leadership". What Paul describes is "Bad Leadership" mode. Bad leadership when displayed by founders and non founders leads to poor outcomes. And maybe @bchesky talk at YC was just his journey of figuring out Good Leadership at scale.