Guest on Lenny's Podcast
3 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Slightly left field, but the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church. By a pastor called Rick Warren.”
Why: He recommends it as a guide for understanding how to build emotional investment in a community product.
The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren
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“Okay, not to be cliched, but The Hard Thing About Hard Things, I still think is the best book written about product management, just from a breadth of things that you have to go through…”
Why: He considers it the best book on product management due to the breadth of challenges it covers.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Guest on Lenny's PodcastThis CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
“And the last one is if you're looking for kind of like fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Quang.”
Why: He enjoys it as a fiction/fantasy read for the evening.
Babel by R. F. Kuang
Guest on Lenny's PodcastThis CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)