Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more
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Lenny (00:00:04): Gibson Biddle, whose name is really fun to say, by the way, has directly taught and worked with more PMs than only a handful of other people in the world. Before going full time on teaching, he was VP of product at Netflix and at Chegg, and has written what is almost surely the most popular Medium post on product strategy....
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Lenny (00:00:21): In our chat, we learned about Gibson's very popular product strategy and prioritization framework, and we go through a bunch of real...
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Gibson Biddle (00:54:37): Yeah, yeah. Thank you very much. Lenny (00:54:39): Final question. You've had this illustrious career. What's one piece of advice that...
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Gibson Biddle (00:18:55): Okay, first, I think that most all of the frameworks I...
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Lenny (00:15:48): Maybe, I don't know if this is an answer you're thinking, but just the talent they've built up over time is probably something. Gibson...
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Lenny (00:59:04): I'm going to go answer some of your surveys now. Thank you so much for doing this. I learned a...
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