Tom So

@tomso

Deep into web3 social, bit of a generalist In the crypto rabbit hole (as I should). Also super into startups, everything social and community building. I usually read on product management and career development - I add engineering sprinkles to the mix bc why not

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A startup’s data room is key for raising venture capital. But many founders waste time compiling data investors don’t want or need. From @venturetwins, a 🧵 on what founders need to know, including specific data investors want to see, info to leave out, and traps to avoid.👇

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Data and

Survey design: 4 effective principles | Stripe

Stripe stripe.com

product design and

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

Alex Lieberman twitter.com

Scaling Back Office and

The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club.

Will Larson • Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work.

Migrations Done Well: Part 1

Gergely Orosz newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Engineering Management

Startup COO job boils down to this: 1. Pick a problem area, and build 0 to 1 yourself. First principles get you pretty far! 2. After it gets going, start recruiting for an experienced leader for the area. 3. Onboard the leader well, nuke yourself out and attack next problem.

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Startups and Scaling Back Office

The size and sophistication of these models make it impossible to fully understand how they make predictions. They have billions of weights that interact in subtle ways to make a final prediction; looking at them is like hoping to understand psychology by examining individual brain cells. Even in academic settings with well-established models, the... See more

future.com • How Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work | Future - https://future.com/forget-open-source-algorithms-focus-on-experiments-instead

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Hiring Advice and

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This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team : https://t.co/Dv9Wp377vT

Ali Abouelatta

twitter.com

product and Product-led Growth