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[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

@verghese_ancy @_sankyy @_anshulk @invideoOfficial @_svs_ Amazing ! Congrats

[Marcia Villalba 🦄 @mavi888uy]

We just announced a simple integration between Lambda and RDS databases. This wizard guides you over the process of connect your functions to RDS, sets up your network and everything you need!

https://t.co/FQKNSphw6c

[Cathie Wood @CathieDWood]

China is exporting deflation in a more profound way than I believe many economists and strategists appreciate. All else equal, the 15% depreciation in the yuan relative to the dollar in the last year should have increased its PPI inflation rate by 15%. Instead it has dropped 4%.

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER HIRING

Over the past few years, I've seen several top private tech companies part with their Head of Product / CPO in less than a year. The symptoms are many, but the root cause is the inability for the product-centric CEO to treat the CPO as someone more than a roadmap executor, while the CPO desired to be more strategic.

Post CPO exit, in some cases, the CEO has taken on the CPO responsibilities and eliminated the role; in other cases, the Head of Eng consolidated design and product under them to form a unified EPD team.

Note that the importance of the PM role is not in question at any of these companies; it's the (need for the) role of the CPO / Head of Product.

Underscores that the CPO role is one of the hardest ones to successfully hire for.

CEOs: Your unique role as CEO is not to assess if these candidates can successfully build products, but rather to determine if they can successfully build products with YOU.

CPO candidates: Probe deeply for why the CEO wants a CPO. Is it to delegate tactical work? Or is to truly be a thought partner?

[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

@tobi very cool application of LLMs

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Within the next 5 years, it will be normal to have AI join important meetings at work. Not for notetaking, but for fact checking & offering an opinion based on everything it knows about the company, the metrics, the market & the points made by the humans.

“AI, what’s your take?”

[What's New on AWS (Unofficial) @awswhatsnew]

Amazon RDS now supports setting up connectivity between your RDS database and EC2 compute instance in 1-click

Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity from Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon ... https://t.co/1g0ARy4rFR

[Lynn R Habib @amazon_rds]

amazon ec2 app - oDesk - hi, I have 2 amazon ec2 instances running a windows os. I would like a simple 1 click app t... http://t.co/spNbvKju

[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

@shishirmehrotra @benthompson I am stratechery subscriber and was pleasantly surprised to see your interview today. As always enjoyed and learned a lot from the interview and the bundling story 😊

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

I have a Master's degree in business.

But I learned 10x more from YouTube.

Here are 10 YouTube channels that will teach you more than a $100,000 degree:

[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

We can't wait for anyone else to act. It's on all of us to help grow this movement to save our democracy: https://t.co/fbRW384FJl

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

If you don’t need cash for a couple years, one of the highest ROI things you can do today is bootstrap a niche SaaS or tech-enabled service with the goal of being acqui-hired by a pre-IPO company for stock + a high base salary.

Two friends that did this made $3m+ in 2-3 years.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Time for a meta-thread on the Product Management content I’ve posted over the past 6 months.

This one is long, but I hope it can serve as a useful & quick reference for PMs.

It has 4 sections:
1. The PM Role
2. PM Skills
3. Strategy
4. PM Leadership

Are you ready?
👇🏾

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

A 17 year old high school dropout turned a $10K loan from his mom into a $1B+ company.

The crazy part?

They’ve never bought an ad.

This is the crazy story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

@shishirmehrotra Annual Op1 planning (operating / budget plan) and goal setting , monthly business review to measure progress.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Clear product thinking is essentially about telling the proxy for a thing apart from the thing itself.

Remind yourself & your team this:
The proxy is just a proxy. It is not the thing itself, it is not the end goal

By all means *measure* the proxy, but don’t *manage* the proxy.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Sharing this excellent operating manual for leaders of fast-growing orgs, from @shishirmehrotra. This content is easily worth millions of dollars, if you pay attention to it & adapt it to your company's context. Seriously.

https://t.co/3idFzeWqqE

[venkat balaji prasad @venba]

@patrickc Very cool - congrats !

[Stripe @stripe]

🆕 Stripe Payment Links—create a payment page in just a few clicks and share the link with your customers. No code required! 🔗 https://t.co/6KjFFSqS43

[Vinod Muthukrishnan @vinod_cc]

I can put my hand up and say that no other SaaS ecosystem shares as much learning and pays it forward as the SaaSboomi tribe. Truly a privilege to be a part of the movement 💜