Hi, I'm Jasper.

Hi, I'm Jasper.

Founder product manager based in Brooklyn

At my core, I’m a consumer-focused product manager with a passion for experimentation. I help organizations set strategy, execute efficiently, and measure results.
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🧑‍💻 Experience

✍️ Writing

📚 Reading

🏗 Resources

👋 About

🧑‍💻 Experience

I’m a founder and former senior product manager at The New York Times, Noom, Policygenius, NBC News, AMC Networks, and Fueled. My areas of focus include growth, monetization, mobile apps and experimentation.

✍️ Writing

My musings on tech, product management, media/publishing, and anything else that interests me.

  • Structured Thinking in Product Management
  • How I turned my rental apartment into the ultimate smart home
  • Goodhart's Law is Killing Free Journalism—Bundles are the Solution
  • How to Evaluate a Product Management Job

Read more on Medium.

📚 Reading

I take my professional development seriously. You can check out what I've been reading here:

📖Book Tracker

🏗 Product Resources

I spend a lot of time reading about product management. Here are some of my favorite books, articles, and product people.

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Product fundamentals
  • Inspired - Marty Cagan
  • Lean Product Playbook - Dan Olsen
  • Escaping the Build Trap - Melissa Perri
  • Measure What Matters - John Doerr
  • Product Lessons - Linda Zhang
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Strategy
  • Bundling
    • Four Myths of Bundling - Shishir Mehrotra
    • How bundling benefits sellers and buyers - Chris Dixon
  • Marketplaces
    • Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays
    • Andrew Chen on marketplaces
  • General
    • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard Rumelt
    • 7 Powers - Hamilton Helmer
    • Mission, Strategy and Tactics - Andrew Bosworth
    • Aggregation Theory - Ben Thompson
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Prioritization
  • Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
  • The Alternative to Roadmaps
  • Decision time: Our new product decision-making framework
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Growth
  • The Racecar Growth Framework
  • Hacking Growth
  • Growth Loops are the New Funnels
  • Notes on Superhuman’s Acquisition Loops - Kevin Kwok
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Analytics
  • Tracking the right product metrics
  • GoPractice - Blog
  • Product Analytics Playbook: Mastering Engagement
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Product people

There's lot's of noise in the product world. I find these people consistently have great insights.

  • Marty Cagan
  • Lenny Rachitsky
  • Shreyas Doshi
  • Teresa Torres
  • Ben Thompson
  • John Cutler

👋 About

  • In my free time I like to read, sail, cycle, ski, hike, and fly my quad kite.
  • You can find me on LinkedIn, Medium, Spotify or shoot me an email at jaspercurry at gmail
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