Congrats team Figma Slides! It's crazy, for a product that launched less than a year ago, it's already ahead of Apple Keynote and tied with Canva for most used presentation software amongst my newsletter readers. Well executed product expansion
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Free Lightning Lesson Building PM AI Agents Today
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Hot tip: A free lightning lesson for PMs building agents at 11am PT today with @talraviv @Altimor @jebank @BAVernon Register here: https://
maven.com/p/50b3a6/build
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Wiz PM shares $0 to $100M ARR growth story with pivot
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A good day to revisit my chat with the amazing @RaazHerzberg, the first PM at @wiz_io.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 18 mars 2025
The craziest part of the story is that the $0 to $100m ARR in 18 months timeline included a pivot.
Here's the full chat: https://t.co/qM5ebj9oPl https://t.co/2sP9y1VJZk pic.twitter.com/M2h7bxlijjA good day to revisit my chat with the amazing @RaazHerzberg
, the first PM at @wiz_io
. The craziest part of the story is that the $0 to $100m ARR in 18 months timeline included a pivot. Here's the full chat: https://
youtube.com/watch?v=vnW3zI
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Alumni PMs Starting Companies: Series A Success Rates
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Let me get the raw numbers here, but what this is looking at is % of companies' alumni PMs that go on to start companies AND that company goes on to raise a Series A.
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Which Companies Produce the Best AI Products Analysis
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Don't miss the full post for a lot more data: https://
lennysnewsletter.com/p/which-compan
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Which Companies Create the Most Successful Founders
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4/ Finally, I looked more closely at which companies create the most successful founders. It’s one thing to start a company—it’s another to start something that works. Based on the data we have available to us, the best proxy we found for measuring “successful” was to look at
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Which Companies Produce the Best Product Leaders
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(Here's the full post if you want to dive right in, but keep reading for more highlights: https://
lennysnewsletter.com/p/which-compan
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…) 2/ Next, I looked at which companies’ alumni PMs go on to become product leaders most often (e.g. CPO, Head of Product, first PM hire at a startup). Takeaways:
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Palantir PMs Start Companies at Highest Rate Among Tech Alumni
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3/ Then, I looked into which companies’ PM alumni go on to start the most companies, irrespective of how these companies do. @PalantirTech dominates. Over a third of their PMs have started a company. @Intercom comes in second, at over 18% (almost one in every five alumni
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How Zoink Inspired Bolt’s Rapid Growth Success
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How @zoink inspired @boltdotnew
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 17 mars 2025
(which is currently the second fastest-growing product in history in terms of revenue) pic.twitter.com/QYDey1XArVHow @zoink inspired @boltdotnew (which is currently the second fastest-growing product in history in terms of revenue)
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Engineer Leaves Tech Career for Park Ranger Role
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Check out this former colleague: Director of Engineering to park ranger.