An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)

One thing that's really interesting is that our impact and like our business goals. Are in service of our mission. which is to seek the truth and kind of help people understand the world. Not the other way around. And so what it means is that the way that we, you know, think about impact is growing a giant subscription. Business. That business

exist to strengthen an informed democracy at a time when people are struggling to understand basic facts and struggling to understand each other. And That means that, you know Impact for us is growing subscribers, but it's also when a deeply

and you know, reported story. Trigg an important policy change or a new law. And so when you're a product manager, you're involved again in like driving specific metrics like engagement or subscribers, but you're also trying to help stories find their real audience in ways that trigger just this whole different side of mission and purpose driven impact. And I didn't feel that when I was at a place like Facebook. Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Today my guest is Alex Hardyman.

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