Ali Abouelatta is the author of the First 1000 newsletter on Substack (with over 85,000 subscribers at the time of publishing this episode), which is about just that! It also contains all kinds of tips, tricks, and hacks relating to getting your first 1,000 customers and beyond, including: pricing, product design, product management, growth hacks, startup stories, and much more. By day he is a product manager at the popular language learning app Duolingo, and by night he is the author of the popular email newsletter First 1000. Originally from Egypt, he received his bachelor's degree from NYU, and his Master's degree from Cornell Tech. He's worked in a wide range of roles from product management to venture capital.

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📖 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (the greatest emperor of Rome): https://amzn.to/3vtFeBf

Credits:
Video/audio editor and engineer – Oleksii Kyrkach