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Don't Lose Your Aura (opens the original)
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“How do we look at a world where the incentives are so anti human and how do we live with it? And where do we hold our ground?” Jia TolentinoThe world demands productivity and perfection. The post-englightenment age requires us to be striving for more, better, and faster. We’ve achieved so much through this directive: surpluses of everything, modern medicine, needs and demands that can be attended to in hours or less. With AI, creation is cheaper than ever before, and my biggest fear is we forge
“What’s a good retention rate after the first month?” (opens the original)
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How to Hire Exceptional(TM) Product Marketers (opens the original)
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Founders always ask me how to hire Product Marketers. But not all product marketers are created equal. Good product marketers do the job: create messaging, sales enablement materials, build content. Great product marketers get involved in cross functional projects, translate product strategy for the GTM side of the business. They understand the product and its unique place in the market landscape, as well as the landscape’s place in the macro climate, too.Exceptional product marketers, according
Hot Jobs #3 (opens the original)
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All the growth questions my friends texted me last week (opens the original)
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I’m Sam Richard, CRO at ngrok and former VP of Growth at OpenView where I got the pleasure of working with lots of great DevFirst companies on tough growth problems like pricing and packaging, metrics, and positioning.I’m a serial connector, which means if I’m interested in something you’re working on I WILL dm you and become your friend. In fact, this is how I met Francesca. As a result of my extracurricular activities, I often feel like my iMessage is a clearinghouse for growth convos (and Saa
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