Why do companies with major resources & distribution make products that are mediocre & often fail to reach their potential? There are a handful of reasons, many of which you already know. But there is one under-discussed reason: Operators Optimizing for Optics Thread:

Why product management may not be a good choice versus an Individual Contributor dev career for some of us -- Demand Supply gap for product is unpredictable & often less than dev If you create a 100 people tech team: 70+ devs <=10 PMs <=10 Designers <=10 Analyst/Data Scientist

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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

An unexpected benefit of having a writing culture is that certain docs you wrote will outlive your tenure at the company. e.g. I get pinged about 2X a year with a thoughtful question on docs I wrote 3+ years ago within Stripe (and this is true for other alum too). In a proper

As performance review season gets underway in many places now & through Q4, here’s a rough model to help you think about how you are perceived in almost every mid-sized to large company. Your work is generally observed and perceived [0] by others along the following 3

Stop designing ‘Are you sure?’ modals

The best PMs I’ve worked with are “full stack.” And I think the rise of full stack PMs will usher in a new golden age for product managers: Companies are shrinking team size, AI is creating more leverage per employee, and product leaders are gaining more scope and influence.

“Working fine for me. Can’t reproduce. Closing the bug.”

This. I think about it often. Google Maps is the GOAT app, in a league of its own.

SF: Barcelona - Bayern Real Madrid - PSG Final: Barcelona - PSG Winner: Barcelona 🤞🏽

Once you switch to YouTube Music and realize it plays everything from music and remixes to live sets and that one obscure upload from 2011, you really start wondering what you were even paying Spotify for.

This is definitely the best Lamine Yamal edit I’ve ever seen

“For me, whoever enters the GOAT conversation must be a player who has won the World Cup. I think this word has lost its meaning.” 🤡 If his legendary career is the best dish ever, his opinions are surely a fistful of salt in it.

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There goes my favourite hobby.

The end of this tweet, is “obviously” referring to these two founders when it says “these people”, right after mentioning the common thing being desi men. According to her 4th reply to the tweet. How do you claim to know how to read the room (as a VC) and yet make this claim?

Fintechs have a high failure / low profitability rate because most fintech founders fail to recognize the below 8 harsh truths 1. Each Cohort must be profitable - Tech startups acquire users at a poor LTV/CAC with the intention of consistently improving LTV of new and past

All conspiracy theory believers are insufferable idiots. Football fans and players particularly so.