If you found Colin's post on AI prototyping useful (and you probably did because it's on track to be one of the most viewed posts ever), just a reminder that he's doing a free 30-minute lesson tomorrow at 10am PT showing you how to build a functional prototype in 10 minutes.
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Building and Attracting Top Product Manager Teams
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Rohini Pandhi (@rohinip) is head of product expansion at @Mercury, spent seven years at @Square (now called @Blocks), and is co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 12 janvier 2025
In our conversation, Rohini shares:
🔸 How to build your early PM team
🔸 How to attract top PM… pic.twitter.com/GZ3VNpidMzRohini Pandhi (
@rohinip
) is head of product expansion at @Mercury
, spent seven years at @Square (now called @Blocks
), and is co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective. In our conversation, Rohini shares: How to build your early PM team How to attract top PM -
Founders as Product Managers: When to Hire Your First PM
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Some key takeaways: 1. In the early days, founders need to take on the product manager role themselves. They should be directly involved in understanding the customer and the solution. Don’t hire a PM until the founder can't do the job anymore. 2. Signs it’s time to hire PMs:
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Founder’s Journey Beyond Checkboxes: Rethinking Success
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“For a lot of founders, you follow a pretty linear path. You have an idea, find a co-founder, get into YC, hit $10 million valuation, $100 million, a billion.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 11 janvier 2025
I felt like we had cleared all that. If I was really honest with myself, I'm just like checking boxes and sort of… pic.twitter.com/sCOKEDyIzn“For a lot of founders, you follow a pretty linear path. You have an idea, find a co-founder, get into YC, hit $10 million valuation, $100 million, a billion. I felt like we had cleared all that. If I was really honest with myself, I'm just like checking boxes and sort of
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Free Lightning Lesson: Data Analysis with ChatGPT o1 and Claude
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Hot free learning opportunity alert @talraviv (author of my 2nd most popular post) and @yourgirlhils (author of my 4th most popular post) are teaming up to give a free 30-minute lightning lesson on how analyze data with AI. Learn how to use both ChatGPT o1 model and Claude's
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Internal Promotions Create Leadership Seniority Gap Challenges
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.@drewhouston on the pitfall of having too many of your company leaders come through internal promotions.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 10 janvier 2025
"The seniority gap is something that can accumulate because…you promote a lot of people internally, which is sort of good for them. It seems good for them in the short… pic.twitter.com/NOEgt6UIt1.
@drewhouston on the pitfall of having too many of your company leaders come through internal promotions. "The seniority gap is something that can accumulate because…you promote a lot of people internally, which is sort of good for them. It seems good for them in the short -
Long Journey Ventures: New AI Investment Fund Launch
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Huge! Same naming ideas as my other favorite fund, long journey ventures.
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Founder responsibility: Employee happiness isn’t the priority
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It's not a founders job to make employees happy
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 8 janvier 2025
via @AlisaCohn pic.twitter.com/xVoTNVOq1DIt's not a founders job to make employees happy via @AlisaCohn
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Community Notes Podcast: Inside X’s Collaborative Fact-Checking
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I've got @kcoleman and @jaybaxter (brains behind Community Notes) coming on the pod soon. What would you love to learn about Community Notes?
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CodeRabbit and Windsurf: Developer AI Tools Comparison
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The post actually includes Windsurf, but didn't touch on CodeRabbit. Maybe we'll do a V2 with whatever new tools emerge over the next 6 months. What do you love about CodeRabbit?