Julie Zhuo
@joulee
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Founder @teamSundial. Angel investor. Author of "The Making of a Manager" https://t.co/6HwJhCW5Hi. Obsessed with systems. Design + data person.
Bay Area, CA
Joined November 2008
My book “The Making of a Manager” is out today 🎉 It’s everything I wish I’d known when I became a manager at the age of 25. Know someone who might benefit from it or looking for a refresher for yourself? Please help me spread the word!
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so we raised a new round, but haven't told anyone yet our investors are like, hey put our money to use how come burn isn't going up i gotchu fam introducing burn rate by runway an award winning, blind taste-tested (by me!) hot sauce, wrapped in a genuine $100 bill for $13.99
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First thing I do when I start an engagement with any company is audit their analytics and tracking. You can model the most important funnels and behaviors in almost any product in < 20 key events.
Most companies are *vastly* overcomplicating their analytics. Everything is tracked clicks, scrolls, impressions, events. Which is fine. Logging is cheap. We also need them when we need to understand rare phenomena. But attention isn’t cheap. Most of what we track never helps
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Most companies are *vastly* overcomplicating their analytics. Everything is tracked clicks, scrolls, impressions, events. Which is fine. Logging is cheap. We also need them when we need to understand rare phenomena. But attention isn’t cheap. Most of what we track never helps
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Looking forward to hanging with my pal @soleio and the @southpkcommons community this week!
Good news: This Thursday I’m sitting down with @joulee to do a deep dive on the intersection of data and design. She’s going to walk us through her product and leadership insights as cofounder @TeamSundial Live from @southpkcommons SF at 2pm Pacific. Request an invite below.
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If you want your generations to feel designed and not…generated We hid a few invite codes to @variantui in this video The first 100 get unlimited credits, reply for a hint
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All good things contain the seeds of their destruction. Don’t believe me? Give me a strength and I’ll show you how it’s also a weakness.
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Death by a thousand dashboards Dashboards were supposed to be our saviors, promising the professionalism of a plane cockpit with clean gauges, clear dials, and a single view of what’s going on. One glance, and you’d know if your product or business was flying smoothly. That was
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All those tech bros be showing off their ARR but what the ladies really want to see is your churn numbers and some big NRR.
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My goal in life rn is to wake up excited to work on interesting problems with people I like. Want to come automate decision science + analytics with me? @TeamSundial has a lot of open roles!
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How can AI startups raise capital at sky-high valuations while losing money? Because investors are betting on future dominance, not current P&L. Thread:
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Diagnose with data. Treat with design. One is the yin and the other the yang. They follow each other in an infinite cycle. Data is the process of deeply understanding reality as it *is*. Design is the process of designing future reality as it *could be*.
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Gamma crossed $50M ARR with 28 employees and more cash in the bank than we had raised ($23M) In hindsight: We got here because we ignored common VC advice. Examples of glaringly bad advice that you should ignore to save you $10M+ and years of time, like we did for Gamma:
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My biggest takeaways from my chat with @joulee: 1. We're all becoming managers—of AI. Luckily, most management skills transfer directly to getting the most out of AI tools. Management is fundamentally about achieving outcomes with resources: “You have a North Star, you have a
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“Diagnose with data. Treat with design.” —@joulee
From managing people to managing AI with Julie Zhuo (@joulee) In a very special episode, my first-ever podcast guest returns (3 years and over 30M downloads later!) to explain why everyone's about to become a manager—of AI. Spoiler: The skills that make you a great manager also
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Three years after being @LennyKravitz's first podcast guest, it was so much fun to return and chat about how leadership is evolving with AI. Love Lenny's unique trifecta of genuine curiosity, high bar, and spotlighting the best contributions of each human -- not at all surprised
From managing people to managing AI with Julie Zhuo (@joulee) In a very special episode, my first-ever podcast guest returns (3 years and over 30M downloads later!) to explain why everyone's about to become a manager—of AI. Spoiler: The skills that make you a great manager also
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Most product feedback sucks. It's an immediate gut reaction: "Ooh, I love this!" or "Meh." Want to get better at actually giving useful, actionable product feedback? Run yourself through these 7 questions. 1) What is the user journey to get here? You can’t furnish a room if
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