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Facebook VP Product Fidji Simo shares her secrets for mastering focus in a world where possibilities are endless and the stakes are high. Doing so has not only changed her life, but also the success of the products her teams build.

Facebook's VP Product on Finding Focus | First Round Review

Instagram Co-founder and CTO Mike Krieger built one of the industry's leading technical teams from scratch. Here's how he navigated rapid scale.

Instagram's Co-founder on How to Scale an Engineering Org | First Round Review

At Twitter and Slack, Paul Rosania built interfaces that millions use each day. Here, he dissects how he eliminated doubt from four high-stakes product decisions.

Twitter & Slack Product Leader on How to Take Doubt Out of Decisions

Stacy La made the leap from design at Yammer and Microsoft to Clover Health, when the bootstrapped startup was only four people. Now, the company's raised over $425M, 500+ employees strong, and La leads an eight-person design team. Read on for her tactics on how to survive — and thrive — as an early employee.

Clover Health's Director of Design Stacy La on How to Succeed as a Very Early Employee at a Startup

In this exclusive interview, he shares what he's learned about creating business models that connect seamlessly with the technology products they depend on.

James Quarles Shares how Instagram and Strava Apply User-First Monetization to Build Big Businesses

Recruiting and hiring executives is difficult for any leader, but especially first-time or early-stage founders who may not have enough knowledge to test candidates for skill in their area of expertise. Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta has been there — and has a roadmap that'll help.

Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta on How to Hire Executives for Your Leadership Team

It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer.

Payal Kadakia on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product/Market Fit

Gokul Rajaram shares a framework that he's used at Square and Caviar to make the most difficult decisions, all while assigning ownership, being inclusive and coordinating execution among all stakeholders.

Gokul Rajaram on How to Defang Difficult Decisions

After two decades of comms experience with companies like Eventbrite, Yahoo, Mattel and Nike, Terra Carmichael shares four common PR mistakes and her techniques for sidestepping them.

Terra Carmichael on How to Avoid the Top Comms Mistakes Startups Make

It’s time to raise the bar for diversity & inclusion — and Aubrey Blanche has the playbook that can help startups couple caring deeply with acting quickly. Here, she shares eight strategies that have made a difference at Atlassian.

Aubrey Blanche on Eight Ways to Make D&I Efforts Less Talk and More Walk

Many founders feel the pressure to spin up sales quickly to hit growth targets, but seasoned sales leader Karen Rhorer knows that this unsustainable strategy can lead to painful layoffs down the road. Here, she shares the four levers and key calculations startups need to understand in order to scale sales hiring the right way.

Karen Rhorer on How to Scale Sales Sustainably

Behance founder and Adobe's Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky believes the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture is the middle stretch of company building. Here he zeroes in on what startups must do to iterate and improve products mid-flight.

Scott Belsky on How To Shape Remarkable Products In The Messy Middle Of Building Startups

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

Rahul Vohra on How Superhuman Built An Engine To Find Product Market Fit

Wealthfront's former VP of Growth and current President Andy Johns outlines the three mandatory skills of a growth leader.

Andy Johns on the Indispensable Growth Frameworks From My Years At Facebook, Twitter And Wealthfront

Angel Steger serves as our guide on a trek to better understand the still developing speciality of growth design. She shares lessons learned from her roles leading the function at Dropbox and Pinterest, and outlines tactics for early-stage startups looking to source, interview and onboard growth designers of their own.

Angel Steger on Defining Growth Design: The Guide to the Role Most Startups are Missing

Todd Jackson is skilled at identifying excellent product managers. Dropbox's former VP of Product and Design shares his process here.

Todd Jackson on How to Find, Vet And Close The Best Product Managers

Zainab Ghadiyali's extraordinary career has taken her from nonprofit work in Peru to life as Product Lead at Airbnb. With tactical advice on building transferable skills and beating impostor syndrome, she shows entrepreneurs how to embrace the unconventional path and forge a career fueled by curiosity.

Zainab Ghadiyali on the Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career

It's time to do away with the myth that emotions don't belong in the workplace. With hilarious, relatable illustrations, Liz Fosslien shares how you can tap into anxiety, envy and other "deadly" emotions to boost your career and well-being.

Liz Fosslien on the Seven Emotions That are Your Secret Career Superpowers

Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Now on the heels of its acquisition by Google, co-founders Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, CEO Frank Bien, and first investor Bill Trenchard come together to fill in the details and dig into the lessons learned from Looker's founding story.

Looker's Founding Team on How They Turned A 216-Word Pitch Email Into A $2.6 Billion Acquisition

After telling us to 'Give Away your Legos,' Molly Graham is back to dig deeper into tactics for handling the emotional rollercoaster of scaling startups. Here, she shares the strategies she used at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Facebook to keep her head on straight and defang three common challenging situations.

Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups

After founding and scaling LendUp for seven years, Sasha Orloff decided to step down as CEO. He shares his journey and his illuminating takeaways about career transitions, structuring time off and founder life after the startup.

I Asked 100 Founders, CEOs And VCs About Career Transitions

Performance reviews are key to accelerating your report's career. A former Airbnb Product Lead shares the conversation template that he's used to build high-performing teams and motivate growth all year long.

The Power Of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager

Gloria Lin opens up about her pre-founder journey, from founder dating and early conversations to how she prototyped with potential partners to narrow in on a specific idea. Her playbook is one of the most detailed and intentional processes we’ve ever seen — and the set of 50 questions she used to probe compatibility is an essential tool for any entrepreneur looking to team up on a startup idea.

Gloria Lin on The Founder Dating Playbook - Here's the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder

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