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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-10-24 Who really owns pricing? Learn AI monetization strategies from a16z (Sponsor) In this live webinar with Metronome, Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, will share how both startups and public companies are shifting from subscriptions to results-based, hybrid monetization for AI. You'll learn: → Why treating pricing like a product gives you a competitive edge → How fast-growing AI companies align product, finance, GTM, and engineering → How companies like OpenAI are building their Monetization Operating Models Register for the live session on November 4 📱 News & Trends Resiliency and Scale (16 minute read) Our systems, optimized for efficiency and scale, have become fragile. Whether in data, manufacturing, or information, the drive for lower costs and centralization has sacrificed resiliency. Rebuilding it will require expensive shifts toward redundancy and local control. The right to bear technology (9 minute read) The Second Amendment is America's original right to technology, the tool that enforces our freedoms. From Cold War missile labs to modern Silicon Valley, US innovation has always balanced ideals with strength. Our tech sector must remember its duty to protect both. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Your pricing is (probably) broken (8 minute read) Most leaders know their pricing isn't perfect, and that's normal. Every model has tradeoffs, so the goal isn't to overhaul it but to adjust it. Add clear tiers, smart upsells, and flexible levers that better match your product's value and growth story. Prioritization Starts With Strategic Prioritization (9 minute read) Prioritization is strategy. Every ranking of value or urgency reflects a choice about where to build or defend advantage. By mapping benefits, drivers, and enduring "powers," teams can focus less on quick wins and more on investments that compound over time. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools Don't sacrifice agility for stability (Sponsor) Most payment platforms make you choose: agility and innovation or scale and reliability. With Marqeta, launch payments experiences that perform at scale and grow with your business. From optimizing spend and cash flow to building seamless, rewards-driven customer experiences, Marqeta's solutions are designed for longevity. See what you can build with Marqeta > Beyond release management: Feature flags for product discovery (9 minute read) Feature flags can accelerate learning, not just control rollouts. Teams can turn guesswork into fast, confident product decisions by using painted doors to test demand, dogfooding to refine value, and targeted betas to validate functionality. Only 100 metrics matter (14 minute read) Businesses drown in data, but only a small core truly drives understanding: about 100 metrics, 50 key events, and 150 defining attributes. When these are structured through clear equations and semantic links, teams replace noise with insight, and AI becomes a reasoning partner, not just a reporting tool. 🎁 Miscellaneous When your metrics start managing you (5 minute read) Teams fail when they chase metrics instead of meaning. The piece offers five principles for measuring what matters: start with outcomes, balance multiple metrics, favor leading over lagging indicators, add qualitative context, and design dashboards that reveal insight instead of confirming bias. How to Master Google AI Tools: Complete Masterclass with Jaclyn Konzelmann (32 minute podcast) Google's AI product teams prototype with Imagen, Veo, and Opal to test ideas in minutes rather than weeks. Jaclyn Konzelmann's frameworks teach PMs to think big, launch fast, and evolve constantly, focusing on creativity, adaptability, and building in public instead of chasing perfection. ⚡ Quick Links Know When AI Agents Are Using Your Product (Sponsor) AI agents are already acting on user accounts. Agent Shield shows you which sessions are human, bot, or agent—helping PMs uncover risks in minutes, for free. There is no God Tier video model (5 minute read) Specialize by use case, streamline workflows, and build on the diverse strengths of today's video models. How to Connect North Star Metrics and OKRs (5 minute read) Real progress happens when the North Star Metric, Product Strategy, and OKRs align so every short-term goal supports a clear strategic direction. 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. 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