“today my guest is Ian McAllister”
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Ian McAllister
Ian has managed over 100 product managers in his career he spent 12 years at Amazon where he built Amazon smile
1 episode · 2 sourced appearances
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“now he's at Uber leading Global product for the vehicles platform”
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Strategy4 steps
Bezos's Three Tests for a New Bet
Big idea, right owner, legitimate plan — an idea needs all three or it dies
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Leadership5 steps
The Career-Stage PM Skill Stack
Master three skills as a junior PM, three different ones as a senior — not all twelve at once
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Leadership5 steps
The Cascading Metrics Review
One hour a week of public metric probing that forces every leader to actually know their business
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Communication6 steps
The Operator's Manual (Answer First)
Answer the question, then explain — or shut up. The tactical checklist for PM communication
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Innovation4 steps
The Pantry Test
If the idea starts with the ingredients you already have, you are not working backwards
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Influence5 steps
Trust as Currency
Trust is built by repeatedly setting and meeting expectations — and it buys you resources
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Innovation5 steps
Working Backwards (Problem-First Product Development)
Start from the customer problem, not the ingredients you happen to have in the pantry
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Resources in their episodes
- 37signals
- AG1
- Airbnb
- Alexa
- Amazon
- Amazon Echo
- Amazon Working Backwards process
- Ask Gib
- AssemblyAI
- AWS
- CallRail
- Energy and Civilization
- EV News Daily
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Getting Real
- How I Built This
- Lenny's Podcast website
- Loom
- Microsoft
- Mixpanel
- Quora
- Spotify
- Uber
- What Separates the Top 1% of Product Managers from the Top 10%?
- Wool Trilogy
- Yellowstone
- YouTube
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