1/ If you've been following my newsletter you've probably seen this section at the bottom where I highlight 🔥 job openings. This section emerged organically out of requests from readers to promote their open roles, or to help them find their next big career move.
2/ Over time, this section has become unwieldy and inefficient. I've also realized that my newsletter has now aggregated an incredible audience of product-builders, growth leaders, and founders. All of whom are hiring, want to be hired, or will eventually look for something new.
3/ Enter: Lenny's Job Board
My vision is for this to become THE place to find your next product-building gig. I'll be curating the feed, requiring native posts (no scraping), and constantly experimenting with better ways to help match amazing companies with amazing people.
4/ The board will have a symbiotic relationship with my newsletter: I'll promote featured roles in the newsletter, the newsletter will drive traffic to the job board, and the traffic will bring the supply. Flywheels 🙌
5/ How it works: If you're looking for a new gig, visit the job board and set your preferences: location, seniority, title, etc. You can keep track of your favorite roles, remove roles you don't care about, and be notified when new roles appear that match your dreams.
6/ If you're hiring, you have two options for posting a role: 1. Standard post ($500/month) - Your role will be live in the feed for 30 days 2. Featured post ($1000/month) - Your role will sit at top of the feed, will be featured in my newsletter, and I'll tweet about it weekly
7/ This is just the start of the experiment of helping great companies find great people. Coming soon: 1. Referral network communities 2. Private boards for companies and talent to connect 3. Many more filtering and formatting options
2. Lack of supply-side PMF: Your supply doesn’t get enough value from your marketplace (e.g. Prim, Exec, HelloParking, ShipItWise)
3. Lack of liquidity: You’re unable to consistently match supply and demand (e.g. Threadflip, Prefer, Zaarly, Varagesale, LetGo)
4. Bad unit economics: You’re unable to make a profit delivering a competitive price to customers while retaining supply (e.g. Shyp, Luxe, Cherry, Homejoy, Omni, Kitchit, Prim, Washio, Exec, Move Loot, 99 Dresses, Dinner Lab, Commerce One)
Types of projects you'll experience at work, as taught to us by Kurt Vonnegut:
1. Man in Hole: The project starts off OK, but you quickly find a huge issue, which you are able to recover from, and it ends up a big success.
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2. Boy Meets Girl: The project starts incredibly well, but quickly turns into a nightmare, which you recover from and it ends up even better than it started.
3. From Bad to Worse: You take on a project that's going badly, and it only continues to get worse.
4. Which Way is Up: You're working on a project and you have no idea if it's going well or not.
5. Creation Story: Your project keeps getting more and more resources, which you take and find uses for.
1/ Founders often say that hiring is their #1 job, but it’s rare that you find a founder who spends as much time on their job postings as they do on, say, their product’s sign-up flow. This feels like a missed opportunity.
2/ Also, as a startup, you don’t have many opportunities to break through the noise. Since job postings are all generally so meh, putting extra effort into creating a remarkable job posting can be a very high ROI task.