hey! Anthony here. This is my full interview with Linda Zhang. From 2018 to 2020, Linda was a Product Manager at Faire. She recently turned down a $375k offer from Instagram to launch her own product education company, Product Lessons.
We talked about a lot, including:
💸 Rejecting a $375k offer from Instagram.
😄 Going from PM → Entrepreneur
🛠 Advice for early career PMs
🔥 And lots more!
Here’s Linda Zhang:
🎬 Full Interview
Here’s the full video of the 58 min interview along with the transcript (link)
✂️ Snippets
Can’t watch the full thing right now? Here are a few short snippets from the interview. Hope you enjoy:
Clip #1
🌟 Advice for early career PMs (2m 48s) (link)
Clip #2
🌟 3 mistakes she’s learned from, such as managing expectations of managers and peers (5m 26s) (link)
Clip #3
🌟 Most important things she’s learned about product/growth from Faire and since starting Product Lessons (5m 16s) (link)
Clip #4
🧠 Linda talks about the opportunity cost and how to communicate the tradeoffs involved between various efforts (2m 18s) (link).
🎧 Audio
Want the audio? Just hit that play button at the top of this post.
You can find Linda on Twitter & Product Lessons
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PM News #12: Linda Zhang