Key Skills for Top 1% Product Leaders

Hosted by Nan Yu and Ben Erez

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What you'll learn

How to prioritize like a top product operator

Identify the key impact levers of a Head of Product at a successful startup

Non-obvious skills for outsized impact as a product leader

Dive into key skills that set top operators apart from the rest (e.g. taking extreme positions on product)

Practical advice for PMs to develop these skills

Actionable tips for getting better at these non-obvious skills. Practice is everything!

Why this topic matters

Elite operators don't just work hard—they work smart. Join this actionable live lesson with Nan Yu (Head of Product at Linear, previously VP Product @ Mode Analytics, CTO @ Everlane) hosted by Ben Erez (former PM at Facebook) to learn from a top product leader how he allocates his time, the non-obvious skills that contribute to his success, and ways any PM can practice these in their role.

You'll learn from

Nan Yu

Head of Product @ Linear (Prev. VP Product @ Mode Analytics, CTO @ Everlane)

Head of Product at Linear, having fun. Previously VP Product at Mode Analytics, where I was interim CTO before joining full-time. I also worked with Ben at Abstract where I was an engineering manager.

Prior to Abstract, I was the CTO at Everlane for 5 years after starting my career in software engineering at Goldman Sachs.

Ben Erez

Early stage product advisor | 3x 1st PM | Ex-Meta, Attentive, Abstract, Life360

Experienced early stage product manager specializing in 0 to 1. Scaled startups, drove significant revenue at Facebook, and most recently led product & design at Continuum, a marketplace for fractional executives. Currently tinkering and helping early stage founders do more with less as an advisor and interim product leader (sweet spot is pre-seed to Series A).

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