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Building Products at Airbnb
Insights from Brian Chesky (founder of Airbnb) podcast with Lenny Rachitsky:
A lot of companies don't do product marketing, they do brand marketing, which are ads about the app, or they do performance marketing, but they're never really educating people about new things they're making and shipping. And because no one's marketing new things that are
Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):
Be fanatic about product excellence
We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every
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Thinking about team management as a product: - Set up advanced listening mechanisms: help your PMs become better listeners- Keep your feedback loops healthy at all costs: Establish a consistent set of group and one-on-one meetings, ideally early in the week to help set the tone and get the team on the same page.- Your team should have a purpose as ... See more