The three faces of GenAI 🙈🙉🙊, your target market 🎯, product market fit as a team sport 🤼‍♀️

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-09-09 G2 Summer Report: Why teams choose Notion over Confluence, ClickUp, Slack, and Microsoft (Sponsor) The latest G2 report evaluated category leaders based on thousands of customer reviews (including 7,126 for Notion alone). Notion was named a Leader across 8+ categories — including the #1 spot in Knowledge Base and Enterprise Search for Mid-Market and Enterprise. Read the full analysis to discover: Why teams of all sizes are consolidating tools with Notion Notion AI's role in building momentum across categories like Enterprise Search How high-performing teams like Ramp, OpenAI, and Cohere are scaling with Notion Key stats and visual rankings pulled directly from G2's summer grids See why customers prefer Notion 📱 News & Trends The Three Faces Of Generative AI (4 minute read) Generative AI is converging around three main roles: agentic tools that complete tasks, thought partners that expand ideas, and companions that offer emotional connection. Companies must eventually specialize to succeed. AI will change how we build startups -- but how? (6 minute read) AI has yet to reshape consumer apps, leaving few AI-native products on home screens. In the coming years, startups will test how AI transforms business models and industry power. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Your target market isn't demographic (14 minute read) Demographics and firmographics rarely define a true target market. Instead, focus on the shared needs, behaviors, and motivations of your best customers, validated by whether they would resonate with each other's testimonials. Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation (4 minute read) Capacity is not just time - it's a system shaped by past investments, team dynamics, and context. Decoupling time from capacity is essential for measuring true effectiveness and impact. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools AI is table stakes. Knowing what to do with it isn't (Sponsor) Join Miro's upcoming webinar on Product leadership in an AI-accelerated world to learn how to use AI for discovery and definition (rather than just delivery), how to turn AI challenges into opportunites, and how to design ways of working that prioritize people over tasks. Join live on September 16 How to Combine Product Strategy, OKRs, and KPIs (6 minute read) Strategy sets direction, OKRs define goals, and KPIs measure value. Without strategy, both lose meaning. 5 Image Editing Techniques with Google Nano Banana (5 minute read) Google Nano Banana enables fast image editing with natural language, offering object removal, colorization, text editing, character consistency, and branding previews. It streamlines routine design tasks while preserving creative flexibility. 🎁 Miscellaneous Non-Obvious Tips for Landing the Job You Want (5 minute read) To stand out, don't just apply. Build connections, tailor your story, and show initiative. Hiring managers choose candidates who reduce risk and clearly demonstrate unique value. How to Go From Customer Problems to Outcome OKRs (5 minute read) Good Key Results measure behavior change, not business wishes. Define who does what and by how much to connect solutions back to real customer progress. ⚡ Quick Links PMF is a team sport (1 minute read) Product and GTM teams must align across all stages to merge technical insight with market validation for lasting success. System thinkers' blind spots (1 minute read) Systems thinkers excel at spotting patterns but often overlook individual psychology, limiting product success. 11 hard truths about growth (1 minute read) Targets always rise, orgs often block progress, and great products still drive the best growth. 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.