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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

Maggie Leung, VP of Content at Nerdwallet, has encountered every management challenge. Here, she shares the one practice that helps her thrive through difficult decisions and conversations.

Nerdwallet's VP Content on the Questions That Will Help You Navigate Any Tough Work Scenario

HotelTonight's Chief Data and Strategy Officer Amanda Richardson advises startups on how to set up and mine their data to drive insights that actually make a difference for their bottom line.

HotelTonight's VP Data & Strategy on How to Avoid the 4 Mistakes Most Startups Make with Data

For four years, Mike Brown oversaw all aspects of Uber's business in Asia. Now he's sharing what startups can learn from his experience to go big.

What I Learned about Management and Culture from Growing Uber’s Asia Business from Zero to Billions

In this exclusive interview, Urban shares how he distills and presents complex ideas so they're rich and resonant for others: an act that every startup leader and team must master over and over again.

Tim Urban on Parsing and Transmitting Complex Ideas

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

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

Twilio CEO and Co-founder Jeff Lawson brings precision, power and process to company values.

Jeff Lawson on The Company Values You Didn’t Know You Should Have

Reboot.io founder and professional coach Khalid Halim has guided the leadership at Coinbase, Lyft and Checkr through some of the steepest parts of their growth curve. Here, he shares the two promises every founder must make before hypergrowth.

Hypergrowth And The Law Of Startup Physics

NerdWallet VP of People Operations Flo Thinh outlines the profile of an exceptional Head of Recruiting as well how to design a magical candidate experience.

Florence Thinh on How to Turbocharge Your Recruiting Machine

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

Pricing pro Madhavan Ramanujam uncovers a powerful idea: Determine price before you design your product. Here, he details the ways companies trip up when they try to monetize and explains how to do it right.

Madhavan Ramanujam on Why It’s Always Price Before Product.

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

While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience, he shares how to operationalize transparency during hypergrowth.

James Everingham on How He Boosted Transparency At Instagram

While at Pinterest and Grubhub, Casey Winters relied on content loops, an overlooked path to growth. Now a scaling advisor to companies such as Eventbrite and Reddit, he shares a 5-step process and three more advanced strategies for using this approach to achieve steep and sustainable growth.

Casey Winters On Building Content Loops at Pinterest and Grubhub

There's more to comp transparency than just sharing everyone's salaries in a spreadsheet. Compaas co-founder and CEO bethanye Blount makes the case for opening up and gives a rundown on the full spectrum of pay transparency options, sharing tips for how startups can find the right setting and communicate changes to the team.

bethanye Blount on Opening Up About Comp Isn't Easy — How to Get More Transparent

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

Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templates for communication, time management, fundraising and team building.

Mathilde Collin on the Founder’s Guide to Discipline

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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