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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career cover image

Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

CHAPTER

Building a Network for Career Growth Through Sidebar

This chapter delves into the value of a robust peer network for career advancement, focusing on Sidebar as a vital tool for senior tech professionals seeking unbiased feedback. The discussion also touches on the platform's growth, user demographics, and the rising demand for resources that reflect its success in the industry.

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Let me tell you about a product called Sidebar. The most successful people that I know surround themselves with incredible peers. When you have a trusted group of peers, you can discuss challenges you're having, get career advice, and just gut check how you're thinking about your work, your career, and your life. This gives you more than a leg up. It gives you a leap forward. Having a group of trusted and amazing peers was key to my career growth, and this is the Sidebar ethos. But it's hard to build this trusted group of peers on your own. Sidebar is a platform for senior tech professionals, director to C-level, to advance in their career. Members are matched into peer groups to lean on for unbiased opinions, diverse perspectives, and raw feedback. Guided by world-class programming and facilitation, all running on Sidebar's technology, Sidebar enables you to get focused, tactical feedback at every step of your career journey. If you're a listener of this podcast, you're already committed to growth. Sidebar is the missing piece to catalyze your career. 93% of members say Sidebar helped them achieve a significant positive change in their career. Check them out at sidebar.com/Lenny. Okay there's 60 000 this discord server any other traction numbers you can share feels like it's just going really well i know there's probably a lot of sensitive information anything you can share but just like how well things are going a
Speaker 1
couple of things well i'll tell you three things i think the first is i can't share the exact numbers but you know for a product that's only been out for about a year, I think the rate at which our retention has gone up across the typical measures, daily retention, weekly retention, monthly retention, that I think has been very, very positive for us in terms of like, even when we talk to stakeholders, we say, hey, we've got something here. The second thing I'll say is even seeing how the demographics have changed, where I think in the beginning we saw educators, learners really loved the product, and they were a lot of our demographic. It's really now a big mix of, I would say educators and learners are still a big part of it, but really professionals, right? Huge interest from professionals that are like, wow, I want to use this at work. And really funny, I won't mention the company, but I actually had a call with a company recently where they were like, hey, we thought we'd schedule a meeting with you because we found out that a bunch of people in our company are using this tool with our Gmails, with their Gmail account. They're like, they're not supposed to do that. So we just want to make it official that they can use this at work you know with their official work emails i thought that was pretty cool and then the third thing i'll say is uh the number of businesses that we've seen using notebook lm just has it's astronomical it's just like crazy um i think we went i don't want to say the exact numbers, but it is now at a point where I have to hire a business development person because I was like, hey, I have to ship products. And I'm actually taking my customer called every day now. Very, very exciting.

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