product leader posts
PDF · 4 Jan 2025
Series of nine posts (PDF) by Tom Eisenmann about product leadership challenges as ventures evolve. The posts provide practical guidance, scenarios, failure modes, and playbook elements on topics including when/how to hire a first PM and first product leader; managing technical debt (approaches like time-boxing, resource-boxing, full rewrites, LinkedIn case study); structuring and running growth teams; acquisition diligence and post-merger integration (pull vs push); international expansion (i18n/l10n, infra, data, org models); and an operating system for product orgs covering People, Process, and Principles. The series synthesizes interviews with 17 product leaders and the authors’ operational experience.
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January 4, 2025