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Rajnish Kumar's avatar

This is a good extension of your advice of reading case studies to upskill in product management.

Great point about bad case studies, as these news platforms often serve half cooked stories which are easy to grasp and are eye-catching.

The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chan contains many in depth case studies. Please let me know if you've read it.

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Chantal Cox's avatar

Great points! It would be great if you could share some case studies you enjoyed or sources to find the good ones! Thanks

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Deepak Singh 📈's avatar

Hey Chantal, thanks!

Here are few good ones that I have found useful and are available for free to read. Some of these aren't pure case studies, nonetheless useful:

1. Pinduoduo and The Rise of Social Commerce - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/pinduoduo-and-the-rise-of-social-e-commerce

2. Shein: The Tiktok of Commerce - https://www.notboring.co/p/shein-the-tiktok-of-ecommerce

3. Invisible Asymptotes - https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes

4. The Cook and The Chef: Musk's Secret Sauce - https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html

5. A Taxonomy of Moats - https://reactionwheel.net/2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html

6. Netflix is Playing a Game No One Dares - https://www.matthewball.co/all/netflixobjectives

7. Aggregators and Platforms - https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/

8. Why PMF isn't Enough - https://brianbalfour.com/essays/product-market-fit-isnt-enough

Planning to make a catalogue of these in few weeks :)

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Chantal Cox's avatar

thank you ! :D I had seen some of these already I was hopeful there would be a bank of case studies from top universities but that image that is why they want you to pay 6 digits ;)

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Sarath's avatar

There's a little grammatical error in this article, I challenge everyone to spot it! Let's see who finds?

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