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Bend the Room

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Jules Walter · A PM's guide to influence

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“I got better at influence — so much so that a respected Google leader once told me that I 'bend people to alignment.'”- Jules Walter

The Story Behind This Song

At Slack, Jules Walter needed to pitch a controversial monetization experiment to CEO Stewart Butterfield — who explicitly didn't want the company 'extracting value from users.' Jules reframed the entire proposal around user benefits instead of revenue. The CEO leaned in. Two iterations later, teams paying for Slack jumped 20%.

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A PM's guide to influence
Jules WalterNewsletter
How to get better at influence
Lenny RachitskyNewsletter
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