Shreyas Doshi

3 types of product leaders: 1) The Operator 2) The Craftsperson 3) The Visionary It is important for you as a startup founder or CEO, product manager, or a product leader to deeply understand these types, as you make decisions on whom to hire or whom to work for. Thread👇🏾

Edward Norton talking to himself at the USA-Türkiye game 😅

I’m excited to add 3 of my favorite teachers/humans to Lenny’s List on @MavenHQ. Huge alpha in learning from this crew: 1. @Shreyas's Product Sense course: how to make the correct product decisions in the face of ambiguity 2. @clairevo and Zach Davis’s Executive AI Playbook course: how EPD leaders should redesign their operating model to enable AI transformation 3. @AnnieDuke's Decision Making course: how to avoid cognitive biases and groupthink, and make better decisions A few reasons why I continue to recommend @MavenHQ: 1. Learn from people who've done the work: Instructors have decades of experience and have shipped real products at scale. 2. Hands-on projects: Every course pushes you to ship something. 3. Fresh content: With the change of pace these days, live courses are the only way to avoid stale advice. Check all the courses out at maven.com/lenny and use code LENNYSLIST to get a whopping 15-30% off.

📈New milestone: crossed 5000+ students in the past 3.5 years over 3 different live courses I’ve taught. I absolutely love teaching and I often get the question “but Shreyas, don’t you feel the itch to do something that has greater impact than teaching?” It is a valid question (as in, I don’t blame whoever might be asking or wondering), but it comes from a place of not seeing what I see: thousands of highly talented leaders who, every day, are applying what they’ve learned to their products, their strategies, their proposals, their leadership approach, and their careers. I don’t do this work primarily for the impact (something I learned only in my 40s: when I do it for love and from a place of mastery in what I do, the impact takes care of itself). But every day, I get notes from students about the staggeringly compounding impact on their companies, teams, and careers. Which means I get to smile every day 🙌 To every student who’s been part of this journey thus far: thank you for your trust, affection, and for sharing your experience 🙏

@spenserskates @anneleeskates Time to pay attention then 😅

@shreyas @anneleeskates just sent this to me 😂

It took me 15 years of being extremely busy and super-stressed in my job to realize that more skill gives you back more time, energy, joy. Before that, I was chasing more skill just for career advancement. I then saw how leveraging skill for more time, energy, joy is amazing.

@joshelman @a16z Congrats @joshelman and @a16z 🎉

1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @a16z as a partner to help find and support building the next generation of great consumer companies. Let me talk a little about why.

@imHashim Some of them will also reconsider their initial instinct about not finding something practical and actionable. When your writing is super concise it can be misinterpreted when a reader expects everything to be spelled out. Thank you for the question!

@imHashim Those who care will pay more attention as they learn that they are not alone in not understanding and it will require work on their part.

Another example of such a post, in the context of parenting. On parenting: shreyasdoshi.substack.com/p/the-first-la… Someone who isn’t a parent or someone who has very young children will not fully understand it, and might even get upset. Only some parents with much older kids will get it.

@i_Vikram @hnshah You can only begin looking up after the comparison to self, hence looking up necessitates more comparisons than just with that 1 person you eventually look up to.

@DavidfCoyle Some summaries, yes, but not the source.

@shreyas Have you ever read Rene Girard?

Is it possible for a human brain to compute that it should look up to someone, without ever computing that some other people are not worth looking up to?

@CryptoWeeb808 Everything is downstream of judgment. And judgment is downstream of thinking + mindset. Hence everything is downstream of the quality of your thinking and the alignment of your mindset.

@shreyas I wonder if many of these are downstream of judgment. Knowing what matters, what doesn’t, and how to act on that information seems to show up in almost all of them.

Influence Negotiation Conflict management Delegation Strategic thinking Product Sense Taste Clarity of thought Clarity of communication Hiring Leadership in general

As smaller teams start doing much more with AI, most management skills become way less important but leadership skills will become way more important.