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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-04-08 What's your product's core value? Discover your North Star Metric. (Sponsor) There are no silver bullets when it comes to driving customer impact—but uniting teams behind a clear North Star Metric will massively improve your odds. If you've struggled to really put these principles into action before, the North Star Playbook is for you. Written by the experts who have helped turn Amplitude into a leader in product analytics, this playbook covers everything you need to know to stop churning out features and align your team's efforts based on data. What you'll learn: how to define your North Star Metric, when to change it, how to run an internal North Star Metric workshop, and more. Download your copy of The North Star Playbook 📱 News & Trends Trade, Tariffs, and Tech (12 minute read) A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would cripple global supply chains and economic output, with lasting impacts on tech and trade regardless of the outcome. While Trump's tariffs aim to reduce reliance on China and revive U.S. manufacturing, such top-down efforts are risky and likely less effective than adapting within the existing global system. What to do (5 minute read) Help people, take care of the world, and create valuable new things. While helping and caring are moral duties, creating new things is presented as a way to fulfill human potential—and even when done for personal reasons, such creation often ends up benefiting others. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Future-Ready: Thriving in the Age of AI (5 minute read) GenAI is rapidly transforming industries by automating routine tasks, raising baseline performance, and shifting job demands toward creativity, judgment, and real-time decision-making. While many roles will evolve or disappear, uniquely human qualities—such as authenticity, storytelling, and curiosity—remain irreplaceable and essential for navigating an AI-shaped future. The future of Growth & Product Management in 2025 (3 minute read) In 2025, successful PMs must master outcome-driven roadmapping, cross-functional business fluency, and AI-aware go-to-market strategies. Success depends on tying every decision to measurable business impact—not just shipping features. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools Offensive vs. defensive data analysis (7 minute read) Most teams use analytics reactively, scrambling only when metrics dip, but this defensive approach limits growth. Shifting to offensive analytics—proactively uncovering and acting on hidden opportunities—enables sustained innovation, stronger retention, and data-informed experimentation. What is Product Management? (7 minute read) Outsourcing core product work—such as user interviews, insight generation, or strategy—erodes product sense and weakens innovation. Product management isn't just facilitation, it's a craft rooted in curiosity, synthesis, and co-creating the product alongside design and engineering. 🎁 Miscellaneous American Dynamism (3 minute read) Startup culture is often idealized, but in reality, many companies are built on stability and calculated risk, not reckless ambition. During times of economic uncertainty, the personal and financial security that makes entrepreneurship feasible often disappears, yet some still push forward, driven by urgent problems and a sense of purpose. AI agents as 'first-class citizens' in software development (4 minute read) The rapid evolution of AI in software development has brought major breakthroughs like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which standardizes how AI agents interact with data and tools for secure, scalable, and flexible integration. As AI agents shift from co-pilots to key players in development, a new focus on "Agent Experience" (AEx) is reshaping tools, platforms, and what success looks like for developers in the AI era. ⚡ Quick Links B2B vs. B2C Product Strategy (4 minute read) While strategic fundamentals remain consistent between B2C and B2B product management, execution differs. Problem with bias to action (1 minute read) "Bias to action" becomes harmful when misunderstood as rushing blindly. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/b3142ada/9 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of product management professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Ellen Le & Sinan Zhang Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Product Management isn't for you, please unsubscribe.