Sitemap - 2023 - How They Grow

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Avoiding "death by LLM", the most contrarian bet in venture capital, how to cope when you meet someone who is younger and more successful than you, and more.

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Stop wasting time with backstory, the one thing PMs must do daily, shipping is just the beginning, who owns the context, and why you should test with fewer users

How Zapier Grows: Automating Growth

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The price ratio trick, bullshit management vs product management, strategic leadership, 10 actionable lessons on career/life/growth, and some visuals to change your thinking

Make your product hard to buy

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Rethink Black Friday, why incumbents love AI, the power of sidecar products, getting promoted at a startup, and problem clarity

We've crossed 10K! 🤯 And another important announcement 🌱

How Miro Grows: Tactical Lessons From The $17.5B Whiteboard

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: AI is doubting itself, finding a breakthrough idea, reaching your first $1M in ARR, strategy mistakes to avoid, and how to build with velocity.

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Unconventional operating principles, how not to be fooled by viral charts, applying leverage, equations that don't work, and lessons on leadership from Amazon

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Why the interface layer rules the world, the dark side of your superpowers, why you need insight databases, a pricing & packaging playbook, the why you should write

How Nvidia Grows: The Engine for AI and The Catalyst Of The Future

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: On reframing, how strategy means saying no, product-led acquisition channels, breaking a thought loop, and gap analyses

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Minimizing Time To Value, how AI affects our sense of self, the causal loop mental model, Ants & Alien thinking, and a mental model for managing PMs

Why Zume Died: How Melting Cheese Burnt a $2.3B Pizza Delivery Startup Run By Robots

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Product-led sales, advanced Opportunity-Solution Trees, how to build a growth model, automatic creativity, and writing great PRDs (with templates)

How Headspace Grows: The Monk Who Built a $3B Meditation App

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Big mistakes made during discovery, The Strategy Kernel, raising prices, the core PLG KPI, and 90-day onboarding

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The 3 pillars of every great marketing strategy, when to invest in growth, product > strategy > biz model, executive engagement, and how half staffed is unstaffed

The Best of How They Grow

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Optimizing your pricing page, when to dig a moat, when to not take a promotion, valuing your startup equity, and scaling magical experiences

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Working backward, the Peak-End Rule in UX, what leadership isn't about, 6 PM superpowers, and passing 1st round interviews

How Roku Grows: The Platform For Streaming Platforms

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The future of media, ideas are expensive, how AI is eating itself, making irresistible products, and 0 failure = 0 growth

How Roblox Grows: From Virtual Playground to Global Empire

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Startup misconceptions, why to build slowly, the Modern Data Stack, monetization advice, and the LinkedIn algorithm explained

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Running experiments that don't suck, successful sales calls, how to convince someone in <50 words, the power of daily touchpoints, and developing your technical chops as a PM

Why Quibi Died: The $2B Dumpster Fire That Was Supposed to Revolutionize Hollywood

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The refactoring of creativity, daily rituals of great PMs, company red flags, principles to master growth, and collecting ideas vs creating outcomes

Building Carry: Welcome To The How They Grow Show

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Solve boring problems, the gamification of everything, growth ideas, tactics to improve retention, and paradoxical lessons on product management

How Jasper Grows: When AI-enabled Hammers Are Used To Hit The Right Nail

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Negotiating more equity, the evolution of using data, the “Supply Features Trap” of marketplaces, new problems after PMF, and reverse trials for PLG companies

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The new mechanics of brands, ignore your power users, the downside of LTV/CAV, good metrics, and 9 mental models to change your thinking

How Klarna Grows: Building The Shopping Destination of the Future

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Where great ideas come from, where data & design intersect, seismic waves of Gen Z behavior, interview questions, and behind the curtain of ChatGPT

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: What to do when VCs say "no", reverse interviewing, traits of great PMs, The Ladder of Evidence, and positioning

How Duolingo Grows: If Angry Birds Taught You French

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: 10 places to find PMF, self-serve onboarding mistakes, (not) paying attention to competition, welcome emails, and how to get alignment

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Product vision, the Strategy Canvas framework, four paths to marketplace success, 5 steps to building a community, and 18 AI tools to know about

How Zillow Grows: Building The ‘Housing Super App’

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: 10 Truths about product management, a TAM masterclass, developing product intuition, "compound startups", and how to become an idea machine

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Why sales (and why founders fear it), how to build sales team, how to learn anything, the impact of social media homogenization, and schlep blindness

ByteDance | TikTok: Origins, How They Grow, and The Future of The Internet

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The AI unbundling, startup lessons from Taylor Swift, how to work with designers, adding value early in your career, and the petition to halt AI development

Why Vine Died: Closing The Loop On The Company That Changed The Internet

🌱5-Bit Fridays: Why people buy your product, what pineapple pizza can teach us, reaccelerating growth in tough times, 5-anti lessons from Elon, & 20 AI tools for productivity

How Bumble Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#18): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

5-Bit Friday’s (#17): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

How Atlassian Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#16): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

5-Bit Friday’s (#15): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

How LEGO Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#14): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

5-Bit Friday’s (#13): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

How Canva Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#12): Snackable insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

5-Bit Friday’s (#11): Snack-able insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

How OpenAI Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#10): Snack-able insights, frameworks, and ideas from the best in tech

5-Bit Friday’s (#9): Weekly snacks from the startup/tech universe

How Epic Games Grows

5-Bit Friday’s (#8): Weekly snacks from the startup/tech universe