Archive - The FishmanAF Newsletter

Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build

Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more

Jan 23, 2024 • Adam Fishman

WTF is Strategy?

What it takes to build a great company and product strategy - with lessons from Hubspot, Reforge, Facebook, Nextdoor, Patreon and Imperfect Foods

Jan 31, 2023 • Adam Fishman

Finding Your Company’s Next Growth Opportunity

How to create and leverage a Simplified Quantitative Growth Model (including templates)

Jan 30, 2024 • Ross Nazarenko

Mastering Product Discovery - Quantitative Discovery

Everything you ever wanted to know about Quantitative Discovery with stories from Lyft, Patreon, Facebook, Slack and more.

Dec 20, 2023 • Adam Fishman and Behzod Sirjani

Which Type of Product Manager Are You?

An Exploration of Product Manager Archetypes

Mar 5, 2024 • Adam Fishman

When Branding is a Growth Strategy (Part 1)

How to leverage a brand investment to transform your business OR My story of re-branding Patreon for a customer base more creative than me.

Jun 23, 2023 • Adam Fishman

Creating an Experiment Doc

Organize and structure experiments with the template I've used at over a dozen companies

May 17, 2023 • Adam Fishman

The Complete Guide to AI Prototyping Tools

Why AI prototyping represents a revolutionary shift in product building, detailed breakdowns of 14 new tools and how to choose the right one for you and…

Nov 12, 2025 • Sachin Rekhi

Reverse Interviewing—How to interview a company as well as they interview you

Part 2 of a 3 part series on how to successfully join a new company with lessons from leaders at Tile, Contentful, Reforge, Thumbtack, Zillow and more!

Sep 8, 2022 • Adam Fishman

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, 2024 • Crystal Widjaja

Mastering Cold Email

Two experts teach you how to fix this incredibly broken channel

Jan 20 • Kellen Casebeer and Noah Adelstein

Building a Growth Strategy

Lessons and templates from taking Patreon to $1B in annual GMV

Aug 22, 2023 • Adam Fishman

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