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Failure Stories
13 Product-building Lessons from Palantir
A former executive from the company that produces the greatest product managers shares her secrets to strong engineering partnership.
Oct 28, 2025
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Marina Miller
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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, 2024
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Adam Fishman
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All of my articles organized by how they can help you
Dec 26, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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Failure Stories #5: Building the Wrong Product then Doubling Down on Your Mistake | Chris Hatfield (LinkedIn, Meta)
In this first recorded edition of Failure Stories, Chris Hatfield (Director of Product at LinkedIn) shares a story about building the wrong product at…
Nov 7, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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Failure Stories Volume 4
Dan Wolchonok, Head of New Products and former Head of Data at Reforge shares the time he deleted the entire Reforge applications table during their…
Oct 3, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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Failure Stories Volume 3
Gina Gotthilf co-founder of Latitud and former VP Growth at Duolingo shares lessons from big vs. small companies and fear of losing her visa
Sep 5, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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Failure Stories Volume 2
Tom Willerer’s lessons from Netflix and Facebook - a product executive shares his biggest product flop and a failed career move.
Aug 8, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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Failure Stories Volume 1
Even your PLG heroes get mud on their capes—stories from Elena Verna and Leah Tharin
May 24, 2023
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Adam Fishman
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