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Craig Miller on being Shopify’s CPO, Marketing by an Engineer, Leadership, and Scale
Craig Miller on being Shopify’s CPO, Marketing by an Engineer, Leadership, and Scale
Black box of PM Podcast: Season 01, Episode 01
Brandon Chu
Apr 28, 2021
Product Management Mental Models for Everyone
Product Management Mental Models for Everyone
Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumulated over time by an individual and…
Brandon Chu
Aug 19, 2018
The First Principles of Product Management
The First Principles of Product Management
Some of the best PMs I know make their decisions based on first principles. A first principle is a “basic, foundational proposition or…
Brandon Chu
Jan 7, 2018
MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager
MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager
You’ve probably seen this diagram before. It elegantly shows that product management is the intersection of a diverse skill set.
Brandon Chu
Apr 3, 2016
Making Good Decisions as a Product Manager
Making Good Decisions as a Product Manager
While product managers may not build the actual product, they do produce something very tangible for a team: decisions.
Brandon Chu
Jul 11, 2017
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David Hariri on co-founding Ada, the pivot that created a unicorn, and what product-market fit…
David Hariri on co-founding Ada, the pivot that created a unicorn, and what product-market fit…
In this episode I speak with David Hariri, co-founder of Ada, an AI powered customer support platform that raised at a 1.2B valuation in…
Brandon Chu
Jul 28, 2021
Managing and Developing Product Managers
Managing and Developing Product Managers
If the craft of Product Management is often mired in ambiguity, managing product managers is ambiguity².
Brandon Chu
Jun 1, 2018
Deadlines
Deadlines
For as long as I’ve been working in tech I’ve heard this oscillating debate about the use of deadlines in projects, with particularly…
Brandon Chu
Apr 11, 2017
Ruthless Prioritization
Ruthless Prioritization
All high functioning teams must prioritize. Not once a month, not once a week — but rigorously, and ruthlessly.
Brandon Chu
Mar 5, 2017
Applying Leverage as a Product Manager
Applying Leverage as a Product Manager
I get every new PM I manage to read (or re-read) High Output Management by Andy Grove within the first month of joining my team. It’s a…
Brandon Chu
Nov 28, 2016
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