What to read from H1: Product Growth's half-year review

Here's all the best stuff we've covered this year, how it performed, and what's to come.

One of my favorite traditions as a Director/VP at a tech company was writing half-year strategy documents. Today, we’ll do that for my new full-time thing: this newsletter. #BuildInPublic Let’s do it.

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A recap of the first half’s posts for each persona

In chatting with subscribers, I’ve found:

1. Many paid subscribers regularly miss posts

2. All sorts of people subscribe, from founders to product leaders to aspiring PMs

So let’s review the 43 pieces I wrote the past 6 months for the most common personas:

• Aspiring PMs: How to Make a PM Portfolio, Writing Cold Emails, 1/7/40 Hour Job Search, How to Build Work Products, How to Customize Your Resume

• Product Managers: Wireframing, Crucial Conversations, How to Use ChatGPT, Become an AI PM, How to Pair with Design, ChatPRD Guide, Landing a Role at Meta

• Product Leaders: Interviews, Art of Killing Features, Transformation, Case Interviewer Guide, The Job Search, Fractional Product Leadership

• Growth People: Pricing Pages, Anticonversions, Test New P&P, Humor for Growth, Attio Deep Dive, Succeeding in a Feature Factory

• Founders: How Notion Grows, How Figma Grows, How Dovetail Grows, B2B SaaS Pricing, Consumer Software Pricing, Homepages, Tactical Go-To-Market, How to Build an AI Startup

• Techies: Palworld, Everything to Know About AI, Nvidia’s Moat, How to Optimize Your LinkedIn, How to be Indistractable

Why do I cover these diverse personas in the newsletter?

These days, careers between product and growth are hardly linear. PMs become founders. Founders become product leaders. Growth people and aspiring PMs become PMs. PMs become non-product people.

So, that’s why I’ll continue to write across this range of topics. My goal is to write at least one piece for each persona per month.

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Now, for paid subscribers only, let’s cover:

• A deep dive into the metrics and success of product growth in H1: opening up my numbers and tactics to review what worked

• The plan for H2: covering what I plan to do to improve the newsletter in the next half and set a new standard for Product Growth