The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

We have this mental metaphor that we talk a lot about getting to the next hill. The actual wording is take bigger boulder bets. I think teams can often get lost crawling up that hill, not realizing that there's a huge, incredibly beautiful range behind it. And new teams from scratch that intubate in a new area before the areas mature. So we did that with a lot of these kind of native audiovisual products like Huddles and Clips. really the pandemic because our customers were demanding from us. And I think in the AI space, we're trying to hear from customers what do you wish

Slack could do if it had these new superpowers. And let's incubate a couple of teams, prototype, give them space to run and pilot, and then get something to launch that's amazing, blows people away. That's kinda the formula that we've seen. Mm. Welcome to Lenny's Podcast, where I interview world-class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard-won experiences building and growing today's most successful products. Today my guest is Noah Weiss. Noah is chief product officer at Slack.

Where he spent the last seven years. Prior to that, he was head of product at Four Square. Which is near and dear to my heart, as you'll hear at the top of this episode. Prior to that, he was a PM at Google and at Far Creek Software. And in our conversation, we cover the ten traits of great product managers. How to work effectively with strongly opinionated and product minded founders.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.