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Designers have adopted the portfolio for decades. Now, PMs are joining them.

I surveyed 325 PMs and chatted with 15 hiring managers (5 in each geo).

Here's what I learned:

Globally, the numbers are pedestrian:

• 16% of PMs have a portfolio

• 61% know of them, but don't have one

• 23% have never even heard of one!

But - the percentage using them is growing steadily.

The ascent has been accelerated with 3 bumps:

1. The dot com era brought many more people into tech, resulting in some competing with portfolios

2. The great financial crisis led to myriad layoffs, prompting struggling PMs to adopt them

3. The ZIRP era led to a huge expansion of the field, driving former designers and engineers to switch and bring along their portfolios

But this pick up hasn't been global.

It has been geographically specific:

• Adoption in the Americas is a pedestrian 10%

• In Europe and Australia, it's nearly double that

• In Asia and the Middle East, nearly 40% have one

In India, EG, many PM job postings even ask for one!

This got me thinking...

Could a great portfolio help distinguish candidates?

So, I recruited 5 interested mentees in my Slack community to work with me on a portfolio strategy.

I'll be honest: we had lots of fits and starts along the way.

• People not reading the portfolios

• People actually disliking the portfolios

• One mentee giving up on the strategy...

But, ultimately, we've been able to figure it out:

1. A CS major got an APM gig

2. A principal PM finally broke into FAANG

3. An aspiring PM finally secured their first PM role

4. A director of Product finally left a toxic manager

5. A PM laid off for 11 months got a job again

The key?

Building a differentiated portfolio that shows not just what you did, but how you did it.

Of course, the portfolio doesn't do all the work. It's one piece of the puzzle.

But in a world where so few use it, it can be a massive differentiator.

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For a company founded in '93, Nvidia's ascent to $2.7T market cap has been FAST. But what really is Nvidia's moat?

Let's break it down.

PART 1 — SOFTWARE

The story starts all the way back in the early 2000s. That's when Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, and his team were out meeting researchers using their products.

Most researchers were hacking graphics packages to run complex parallel compute tasks. It was not ideal. To say the least.

So, when the Nvidia team met Ian Buck, who had the vision of running general purpose programming languages on GPUs, they funded his Ph.D. After graduation, Ian came to Nvidia to commercialize the tech.

Two years later, in 2006, Nvidia released CUDA.

C ompute

U nified

D evice

A rchitecture

CUDA made all those parallelization hacks the researchers were doing available to everyone. Over time, CUDA became the default choice for researchers.

CUDA allowed accessible customization of the low-level hardware. So developers loved it.

Nowadays, when startups like MosaicML evaluate the available technology vs CUDA, they inevitably choose CUDA.

The ecosystem around CUDA has grown so robust that its lead is virtually unbeatable. This software layer is at the core of Nvidia's moat.

PART 2 — HARDWARE

The other side of Nvidia's moat is hardware. But it's not graphics cards for crypto and gaming. The hardware that matters is AI supercomputers.

The story of these supercomputers begins in the late 2000s. As Nvidia was developing CUDA, Jensen asked the team to build a supercomputer to help him build better chips.

The result was a massive supercomputer that weighed 100 pounds and strung together many GPUs with world-class networking for ultra-fast computing.

In the early 2010s, Jensen gave a talk at a conference about this AI supercomputer. Elon Musk got wind of it and said, "I want one."

So, in 2016, Jensen actually donated one to Elon Musk's relatively unknown nonprofit, OpenAI. He hand delivered it, and there's photographic proof.

OpenAI quickly learned the supercomputer worked really well. Especially for training large neural networks. That 2016 Pascal architecture delivered an impressive 19 TFLOPS of FP16 operations.

That's 19 trillion floating point operations per second. It's a massive amount. But that was just the beginning.

Since then, Jensen and the Nvidia team have been lapping the industry in delivering more TFLOPS, growing them at an exponential rate.

The latest Blackwell architecture delivers a massive 5000 TFLOPS. That's >260x AI computer in 8 years.

And it sells for more than $75K. But buyers like Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon just can't get enough, as their internal ASICs are nowhere near Nvidia's level.

As a result, Nvidia's profits and market cap continue to soar, cementing its position as a leader in the AI hardware and software space.

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Growing up in a society where women were not allowed to work, she faced tremendous opposition. Despite all the objections, she stayed focused. Turning her #wordsintoaction, she persevered through resistance and proved that women can succeed in male-dominated fields.

#Herstory is just one example of the resilience and strength demonstrated by many like-minded women entrepreneurs around the world. They face a multitude of challenges, including limited access to resources, social and societal expectations that prioritize caregiving over business, and a lack of representation in leadership positions. Yet, many women continue to thrive in these environments, finding creative ways to balance their personal and professional responsibilities and achieve their goals.

The success stories of women entrepreneurs serve as inspiration for aspiring businesswomen everywhere, highlighting the value of determination, innovation, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

As more and more women break through traditional barriers, they pave the way for future generations of women to do the same.

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24 content ideas to kick off your 2024...

1. Re-introduce yourself to your network.

2. Share your goals for the year.

3. Address a client pain point and how you solve it.

4. Post a networking events you attend.

5. Create a listicle of your favourite podcasts.

6. Share a business lesson and the context as to how you had to learn it.

7. Share a client testimonial.

8. Use a famous individual as a case study to drive your message.

9. Any industry trends you expect to see in 2024.

10. Create a graphic of resources that help you in your job. e.g slack, teams etc.

11. Share career advice to someone entering your industry.

12. Share what you do outside of work.

13. Highlight a recent project you worked on.

14. Re-purpose your best performing posts.

15. Do a giveaway.

16. Post a growth hack.

17. Create a poll to find out your audiences biggest pain points.

18. Share any marketing campaigns that have stood out to you.

19. Collaborate with a creator who you share a posting topic with.

20. Raise awareness of a good cause you're involved in.

21. Share your recent company socials.

22. Do a BTS of your day.

23. Share lessons you've learned about your industry.

24. Answer a question you're asked a lot by clients.

Have you thought about what content you'll be posting in the new year?

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