Best Of Product Roundup - January 7, 2025

The best expert-curated product content from the best product thinkers from around the Internet delivered twice a month.

Every two weeks, we dive into the vast ocean of product content online, both free and paid. We sift through it all to bring you the crème de la crème. Our round-up includes carefully curated links and concise excerpts from the top content.

This week’s highlights feature:

• Top 3 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts

• Top 3 Tweets

• Top 3 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos

Our expert product team has selected these resources to help you save thousands of dollars on unnecessary subscriptions, avoid wasting time reading instead of taking action, and it saves you years spent trying the wrong advice. Our mission is to introduce you to brilliant product thinkers, whether they’re renowned experts or emerging voices.

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Top Long-Form Content

1. How Airbnb Went From $0 to $85B Valuation (Podcast)

   1. What we liked: Practical lessons from an AirBnB Growth alum on how to join marketing thinking and product thinking by focusing on user adoption.

   2. Choice quote: “Integrating adoption into every step of your product roadmap will ensure that your efforts focus on delivering real value, driving engagement, and meeting user needs effectively.”

2. Strategy & Decisiveness

   1. What we liked: A realist appraisal of the degree to which great strategy is necessary (and not always necessary) for success.

   2. Choice quote: “The stories about companies that hedge their options, keep multiple irons in the fire, and succeed by being reasonably OK at many things aren't nearly as sexy. And yet most companies, including many successful ones, operate with strategies that are far less decisive than we might like.”