9 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“The heart of good product is really getting comfortable in the problem space or the opportunity space.”
“Have a beginner's mind. Go in assuming that you know nothing and listen to your customers.”
“It's really about helping the product managers focus on what they were actually hired for, the strategic work.”
“The PM job can become a little too internal, influencing my stakeholders and getting alignment and all these things. But if you can't sell or support your own product, I don't trust you to build the product.”
“Product is science. It's really an art, like a game that's being played out.”
“I don't think you're a good PM if you haven't shipped something that's really shitty.”
“You can't do homework. You can't do exercises. You can't do fake stuff. You have to work on real products at real companies with real customers, with real data to get better at product management.”
“The best product teams, in my mind, have really figured out how to balance the talent portfolio.”
“You can't build a product unless you know how to talk about the product.”
