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1 of these 17 posts are strong enough to show on their own: specific, new, first-hand and usable. With 3, this account joins Find, where people look for builders worth following. The next reading counts the newest posts.
Lenny Rachitsky, the last 17 posts, read by six needles; the score counts the 5 that are words only. A reading of the words, not a verdict on the person, and not a prediction of reach.
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1 of 17 Strongest post
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Most people don't know this about me, but I've long had really bad stage fright. I'd get extremely nervous giving talks, speaking in big meetings, being in the spotlight. It's still a problem, but it's gotten a lot better in the last couple of years. For those struggling with this too, three things that made a real difference for me: 1. Ultraspeaking: It's a unique approach to building confidence in public speaking, in a fun and low-stakes environment. 2. Beta-blockers: It quiets the body's physical anxiety so you can focus on what you actually want to say. Do your own research (and talk to your doctor), but it's felt like a miracle. 3. This advice from @tobi below, plus a few other mantras I repeat in my head that shift my mind from worst case to best case: - "Look what I get to do!" - "Don't perform. Be yourself." - "Find the joy in it." - "Dare to be dull." - "I love public speaking!" via Tobi If you've struggled with this too, anything you've done that has made a big dent? In case it may be helpful to others.
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My biggest takeaways from @petersellis: 1. There is always money in the banana stand. The highest-ROI growth move is usually investing in the core product, vs. chasing side quests. At @Snap, after the disastrous 2018 redesign caused DAU to flatten, the team laser-focused on performance for existing users—particularly on Android—and sparked a multi-year growth renaissance. At @Discord, rather than chasing @Midjourney’s moment, the team focused on making Discord the best place to play intentional multiplayer games with friends. The result was some of the fastest growth in history. 2. Great taste is knowing when to stop. Peter spent seven years watching @evanspiegel personally say no to better ideas than most consumer startups ever launch. His take on taste is that the difference between people with it and people without it is that the ones with taste stop one step before everyone else does. They know when a good idea’s time has come, or when it has to sit on the shelf a bit longer. 3. Spend your time on your best people, not the ones struggling. Against human instinct, which is to help whoever looks like they’re drowning, Peter consistently loads up his strongest performers with more responsibility and decisions until he finds the limit of what they can handle. 4. The median PM is bad, and even net negative, because the skills of a great product leader are the skills of a founder or an executive, so top-percentile PMs leave for founder and exec seats. On the other hand, mediocre PMs fight to stay in the job because the job pays well and has status. ZIRP made it worse because it was the most lucrative role in tech for non-technical people, with the most subjective sense of what great looks like. A lot of engineers and designers conclude “PMs suck” because they have mostly met the bottom of that distribution. 5. Great PMs hold three contradictory traits. First: deep confidence bordering on arrogance, paired with genuine humility. Second: extreme organizational discipline, paired with near-pathological comfort with ambiguity. Third: a long-term vision that’s always holding in the background, paired with a day-to-day bias for action. 6. Peter designs product teams like terrorist organizations: a shared ideology and an explicit map of who is trusted with which decision. You will almost never hear a leader tell their team to collaborate less, but coordination makes you as slow as the slowest node, which compounds and slows organizations down. The antidote is a strong shared ideology and clear DRIs who can make confident, founder-quality decisions quickly. 7. Optimize consumer products for daily active use. Days map to real human cycles; weeks and months are weaker. One daily user equals roughly 30 monthly users in simple math, which is why elite consumer products run extremely high DAU/MAU. Moving that ratio a few basis points often beats acquiring a pile of soft monthly actives and hoping they retain. DAU/MAU is next-day retention under another name. 8. Define a “Core Product Value” that's both a memorable phrase and a set of metrics that measure it. Peter built this framework at both Snap and Discord. At Snap, it was “the fastest way to share a moment with the people you care about,” which you could actually decompose into metrics: time to load (fast), camera-open-to-share rate (share a moment), best friends engagement (people you care about). At Discord, it was “the best way to talk and hang out with your friends before, during, and after playing games,” with a corresponding L7 and Lness definition that made its way into the growth playbooks. The phrase without the metrics is a slogan; the metrics without the phrase are a dashboard. You need both. 9. The most important career decision you make as a PM is who you choose to marry. This has compounding effects on your career that no podcast, course, or mentor can replicate. The intellectual sounding board, the support system, the person who challenges you to grow—that relationship shapes your capacity to operate at the highest level in ways that are genuinely hard to quantify but nearly impossible to overstate.
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3 of 17 45Kviews307likes13reposts19replies
25 awesome early-career eng roles open right now (via 1. @SierraPlatform — Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027) ($150–180K + equity) 2. @OpenAI — Software Engineer, Applied Emerging Talent 2027 ($180K + equity) 3. @PalantirTech — Software Engineer, New Grad ($145–155K base) 4. @cursor_ai — Software Engineer, New Grad 2027 5. @NotionHQ — Software Engineer, New Grad, Dec 2026 ($135–155K) 6. @NotionHQ — Software Engineer, Early Career 7. @FactoryAI — Software Engineer, Frontend 8. @stripe — Software Engineer, New Grad ($122.1–134.4K base) 9. @stripe — Software Engineer, New Grad, Toronto (CA$106.4–159.6K base) 10. @Replit — Software Engineer, New Grad 2027 ($140–180K base) 11. @PalantirTech — Forward Deployed Software Engineer, New Grad, Commercial ($135–145K base) 12. @SpaceX — New Graduate Engineer, Software, Starlink ’26/’27 ($125–165K L1) 13. @AppliedInt — Software Engineer, New Grad, Dec 2026 ($123–158K base + equity) 14. @vercel — Software Engineering Intern, Summer ’27 ($110–132K annualized as posted) 15. @figma — Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2027 ($55/hr) 16. @DecagonAI — Engineering Intern, Summer 2027 ($3K/week + $10K housing) 17. @SierraPlatform — Intern, Agent Development, Summer 2027 18. @SpaceX — New Graduate Engineer, Software, Starship 19. @SpaceX — New Graduate Engineer, Software Security, Starlink ($140–175K L1) 20. @anduriltech — 2026 Early Career Firmware Engineer ($112–149K) 21. @Cloudflare — Software Engineer Intern, Fall 2026, Austin 22. @BedrockRobotics — Internship 2027, Validation & Verification Test Engineer 23. @basepowerco — Quantitative Developer Intern 24. @Saronic — Naval Architect Intern, Summer 2027 25. @stripe — Software Engineer, New Grad, Singapore Browse all the roles:
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4 of 17 221Kviews890likes54reposts45replies
25 awesome PM roles that are hiring right now: 1. @AnthropicAI — Product Manager, Business Technology ($385K – $460K) 2. @Stripe — Staff Product Manager, Connect ($214K – $322K) 3. @Google — Director, Product Management, Google Photos 4. @anduriltech — Staff Product Manager, Growth Platform ($191K – $253K) 5. @AnthropicAI — Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms ($305K – $385K) 6. @Cloudflare — Director of Product Management, Fintech 7. @thinkymachines — Product Manager - Post Training ($350K – $450K) 8. @joinHandshake — VP of Product, Handshake AI ($340K – $380K) 9. @CrusoeAI — Vice President, Product Management, Managed AI ($345K – $385K) 10. @Stripe — Staff Product Manager, AI ($214K – $322K) 11. @ClickHouseDB — Principal Product Manager, Partner Integrations ($210K – $310K) 12. @Rippling — Director of Product, IT 13. @SierraPlatform — Product Manager, Agent Development - Public Sector ($180K – $390K) 14. @chainguard_dev — Senior Product Manager (AI CICD) ($205K – $231K) 15. @anduriltech — Staff Product Manager, Manufacturing Software ($166K – $220K) 16. @CrusoeAI — Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure (Networking) ($285K – $335K) 17. @nvidia — Principal Product Manager - Laptop GPU and SoC 18. @databricks — Sr. Product Manager, Databricks Free Edition ($157K – $215K) 19. @CoreWeave — Staff Product Manager, Data Services ($188K – $275K) 20. @Polymarket — Staff Product Manager, Crypto ($250K – $400K) 21. @airwallex — Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments ($175K – $250K) 22. @anduriltech — Staff Product Manager, Advanced Costing Systems ($191K – $253K) 23. @Google — Director, Product Management, Growth and Monetization, Google Maps 24. @Stripe — Staff Product Manager, Billing ($214K – $322K) 25. @airwallex — Staff Product Manager, AI Growth ($190K – $270K) Browse all the roles:
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5 of 17 331Kviews384likes19reposts28replies
"I like was trying to get a 1:1 with @nikitabier. He reported up into me btw. I couldn't get him to agree. So I was like, dude, if you don't f*cking answer my DMs, I'm going to go on @intro and book you so I can just have a 1:1 with you right now. Luckily, it didn't get to that." 😅
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"I design teams like terrorist organizations." 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from @petersellis We discuss: 🔸 What it's really like to manage @nikitabier 🔸 Why growth almost always comes from the core 🔸 Why great taste is knowing when to stop 🔸 Why the median PM is so bad 🔸 Designing teams like terrorist organizations Listen now 👇
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7 of 17 35Kviews112likes8reposts25replies
Growth tactic #13: "🎈Go anti-professional: One of the most viral LinkedIn posts of all time came from a manager who swapped her corporate headshot for a casual, no-makeup photo. Pick a norm of your own and break it in public. You might talk about how much roles actually pay or admit that a big launch didn’t actually meet internal expectations. People are tired of perfectly curated, glossy exteriors of the professional world, so a bit of human messiness will stand out." More here:
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.@petersellis: Great taste is knowing when to stop "One way you can get at somebody's taste when you're interviewing them is just ask them about some of the things they built that they never shipped. Not that they tested and got bad results for, but they held it in their hands and they're like, the world's not ready for this. If they have a lot of high quality ideas that are on the shelf, exercising that muscle of saying no, of restraint, is probably one of the easiest muscles of taste you can exercise."
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.@petersellis on what most people mean by systems thinking "It's just asking why five times.” Full conversation:
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@nikitabier @intro My full conversation with @petersellis
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What it's like to manage @nikitabier via @petersellis "You don't manage, Nikita. You only seek to direct him. I think of him a lot like Liam Neeson. If your daughter gets kidnaped, he has a very special set of skills, and he's going to employ those skills. But then when you need him to raise the daughter or buy some groceries or stuff like that, all he knows how to do is just like kill everybody in the grocery store."
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12 of 17 77Kviews364likes31reposts28replies
This is very smart. Free training to become a sales person and then placement into startups. Go @firstround 👏 Also, cute website UX!
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Thank you to our wonderful sponsors @WorkOS and @Mercury for supporting the podcast: 🏆 @WorkOS — Make your app Enterprise Ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more: 🏆 @Mercury — Radically different banking, now with Command: Also available on: • Spotify: • Apple:
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@nikitabier @petersellis Listen to my full conversation with @petersellis
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Just a few of the growth ideas inside
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This gonna be good, nice one @swyx
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17 of 17 Weakest post
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Give your engineer a hug
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