The future of PMs 🔮, stop reading product books 📚, your product leadership style 🎨

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-11-28 Lessons from Lovable: Pricing for AI (Sponsor) Traditional SaaS pricing models weren't built for AI. Costs are unpredictable, value is harder to measure, and the old playbooks don't apply. In this Metronome webinar, Elena Verna, Head of Growth at Lovable, shares how her team is tackling one of the toughest open questions in software. In this open and frank conversation, she'll share her lessons on: Why AI has broken the logic of SaaS pricing How Lovable balances self-serve and enterprise monetization The shift from usage-based pricing toward outcomes-based models What companies can do today to prepare for where AI monetization is heading Register for the webinar → 📱 News & Trends What's the Future of PMs? (8 minute read) The surge of AI hype and tool obsession is pushing PMs toward quick fixes and away from the fundamentals that matter. Strong product work still depends on clear thinking, strategy, alignment, and deep problem understanding. AI should support those efforts instead of replacing them. Going to market when no market exists (10 minute read) In a new market, technology means nothing until a strong go-to-market motion gives it value. Anchor pricing high, use direct sales, refine your story, and avoid shortcuts that kill your long-term market. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Unconventional Advice: Stop Reading Product Books (7 minute read) Product books stop being useful once you reach a senior level. Growth comes from studying adjacent fields that challenge your thinking. The Planning Paradox: Why your plans are useless, but planning isn't (10 minute read) Plans fall apart fast. Planning together gives teams the shared language, decision points, and honest conversations they need to adapt when priorities shift. The teams that ship are the ones that treat planning as a way to build clarity and alignment, not as an attempt to predict the future. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools Get this design-stage localization guide to eliminate 90% of post-release errors (Sponsor) Stop correcting translations after you launch. Get the guide (PDF) to learn how leading teams use AI-powered, design-stage localization with Lokalise to launch in all markets simultaneously, with 90% fewer post-release bugs and 10x cost savings. Also included: ready-to-use Figma mockups, a free FigJam workflow template, and an implementation checklist. Get your copy 📥 How To Be Memorable To Senior Executives (4 minute read) Year-end planning shapes who gets promoted, invested in, or tapped for new roles. Make sure leaders remember you by creating positive recent touchpoints, sharing a concise highlight reel, and showing gratitude. The get-unstuck product ops reading list (12 minute read) This guide matches product ops challenges to the book that will help you solve them. It gives you the fastest path to clarity and momentum when your team is stuck. 🎁 Miscellaneous You're Not Misaligned. You're Thinking Differently (8 minute read) People think in different ways. When we learn to bridge concrete and abstract styles, collaboration gets easier and outcomes improve. What is your preferred product leadership style? (3 minute read) Over 2,000 people have taken the Product Leadership Style test, showing clear patterns in Operator, Craftsperson, and Visionary behaviors. ⚡ Quick Links Why your Discovery Insights need an Expiration Date (2 minute read) Re-check assumptions and re-test ideas when the context shifts. What product directors 'direct' (1 minute read) Directors manage complexity, but VPs shape 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/9d8f47c2/9 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 Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Product Management isn't for you, please unsubscribe.