Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

I really believe in frameworks for things that helps drive extreme clarity. I work on a lot of different projects. A lot of times I'm ramping up mid-project. I'm like, where can I learn what I need to learn about this project? I ask five different people, get five different answers. That is unacceptable. Of course, I'm sure there's hundreds of docs associated with the project, but there needs to be one canonical doc. Everyone should know exactly where the canonical dock is. That's the one place I can go to to get all the information I need about a project and it will link to all the other docs. Things on the canonical dock are Today my guest is Naomi Gleite. Naomi is head of product at Meta. Other than Mark Zuckerberg, she's the longest serving executive at Meta.

She joined what was then called Facebook as employee number twenty nine. And has been at Meta for almost twenty years. She's seen the company scale from thirty employees to the one and a half trillion dollar business that it is today. Naomi does very few podcasts and interviews, and so I is really excited to chat with her and have her on this podcast. In our conversation, we dig into the many lessons that she learned from Facebook's early and legendary growth team. Her superpower of taking really complex and gnarly problems and projects, simplifying them and delivering results.

We also get into leadership lessons she's learned from Zuck, including his recent transformation into possibly the coolest CEO in tech. Also, YPMs are the conductor of product teams some very tactical tips for running meetings, writing docs, working out, getting better sleep, and even how to get more protein in your diet. This was such a fun conversation and such a wide ranging conversation, and whether you're in product or growth, or any other attack function, you will get something useful out of this conversation. If you enjoy this podcast, don't forget to subscribe and follow it in your favorite podcasting app or YouTube. It's the best way to avoid missing future episodes. And helps the podcast tremendously.

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