Archive - The FishmanAF Newsletter

Leveraging Opinionated Defaults to Power Growth

What it means to use “opinionated defaults,” successful examples from Patreon, AirBnB, Box, Canva, GoFundMe, Perplexity, Lyft, and Yelp, and a framework…

Oct 8 •

August 2024

How To Do Things That Don’t Scale

Examples of taking multiple products from zero to one and beyond

Aug 28 •

July 2024

How to Figure out Metrics Ownership

A Breakdown of the Own - Share - Shed Framework

Jul 30 •

Hot Take Alert #11: Performance Reviews

What can we do about this largely broken system?

Jul 2 •

June 2024

A Simple Growth Strategy

Leverage this Five Step Process to Kickstart Your Growth

Jun 19 •

Failure Stories Volume 6

Ben Williams, fmr VP Product at Snyk and current PLGeek extraordinaire shares lessons learned in his first Head of Product role and battles with…

Jun 11 •

May 2024

Why Play is Important At Work

What kids and play-based education can teach us about building company culture

May 28 •

A Structured Approach to International Expansion

Deconstructing a framework and lessons learned from working across more than 50 countries

May 21 •

April 2024

Organizing and Making Sense of Customer Feedback

With thoughts from leaders at Reforge, Chime, SpotHero, Quizlet, Slack, Gojek and more.

Apr 30 •

How To Land A Pricing Change

Two case studies and four principles to soften the blow for existing customers

Apr 16 •

Stop Data Theater: Use Altitude Maps

A guide to measuring the right data, connecting it to the work that matters, and changing data culture at your company

Apr 2 •

Crystal Widjaja

March 2024

Part 2: Which Type of Product Manager Are You?

A Follow-up FAQ to Product Manager Archetypes

Mar 19 •

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