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Adam Fishman

I've been a chief product officer and VP of growth and product at a bunch of different companies imperfect Foods patreon Lyft

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“Adam Fishman welcome to the podcast”

Speaker: Lenny Rachitsky▶ Watch at ~4:00approx.

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Treat onboarding as a habit-and-retention engine, not a conversion funnel — and accept lower conversion to weed out the wrong users.

Encode what you've learned works into product defaults — make the right choice easy and the wrong choice hard, without removing choice.

Match your growth hire to your stage — a versatile painter, a structural architect, or a precision surgeon.

Evaluate a company you might join like an investor evaluates a deal — across People, Mission, and Financials.

Four competency buckets for hiring, evaluating, and balancing a growth team without chasing a unicorn.

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