What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)

If you forget about everything else, forget about politics, forget about promotion or or having more a bigger org. Or whatever, if you simply wake up every day trying to have the biggest impact you can Or if you're a leader. Trying to use your team to have the biggest impact you can in the company, how you do every part of your day, that's a really good guiding light.

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 Ian McAllister. Ian is the author of one of the most classic post on product management. What separates a top one percent PM from a top ten percent PM? amongst many other pieces of writing that he shared online.

Ian has managed over 100 product managers in his career. He spent 12 years at Amazon, where he built Amazon Smile. and led the team responsible for growing Alexa internationally. He also worked at Airbnb with me, and now he's at Uber, leading global product for the vehicles platform, which includes making Uber's fleet increasingly electric and autonomous. In our conversation, we focus primarily on two topics. What separates a top one percent PM from everyone else? Specifically for new PMs and also for senior PMs.

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