The Product Leader's Startup Handbook
Built From the Experiences Product Leaders Were Too NDA'd to Share, Until Now.
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Average CPO tenure
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Fail within 18 months
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Leaders interviewed for this book
The Product Leader's Start-Up Handbook was built on a simple premise: the challenges that senior product leaders face when joining startups and scale-ups are not random, they are deeply patterned, remarkably consistent, and sometimes preventable.
NDAs. Non-disparagement agreements. Reputational risk. The quiet shame of walking away from a role that was supposed to be your big break.
These are the forces that have kept this conversation underground, until now. Through in-depth interviews with more than twenty VPs, Directors, and Heads of Product, this book surfaces the patterns that define what is, for many product leaders, an all-out battleground.