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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I’m talking about using in-product levers to grow, in place of or in conjunction with external marketing and sales channels. When people can try your product for free, they experience the value of your product before making the decision to pay. This turns more people into happy users, creating more opportunity for them to tell their friends, who in... See more

Reforge • Product Driven Growth: The New Frontier of Growth — Reforge

Front-running is a predatory market behavior that arises due to information asymmetries created by different actors accessing privileged information. Front-running is one of the ways to access MEV, and selling clients' orders is equivalent to the public Ethereum mempool.

Gonzalo Hirsch • Enter the MEV Void: the Rise of Flashbots

Introducing The North Star Playbook

Amplitude amplitude.com

Startup Growth and

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

Alex Lieberman twitter.com

Scaling Back Office and

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.👇

name twitter.com

Data and

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Hiring Advice and

When I reflect on the lived experience of identity, I think of something that is complex, personal, intersectional, situational, intersubjective. It seems like the thing we are gesturing toward when we say “on-chain identity” is not this personal lived experience of identity, but something else. What is it?

Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State

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.

TBM 44/52: Making Optional Product Practices Stick

John Cutler cutlefish.substack.com

Metascience and