Jason Shah
VP of Product at Alchemy, a blockchain infrastructure company. Previously: Group PM at Airbnb (pre-IPO through COVID); PM at Amazon AWS (following acqui-hire of do.com, the task-management startup he co-founded and ran for four years); PM at Yammer/Microsoft (including through the 2012 Microsoft acquisition); and founder of an education-technology startup he built from age 15 and ran for seven years before a small acquisition. Author of a widely-read guest post on Lenny’s Newsletter — The Product Manager’s Guide to Web3. Known for: the “ladder versus map” career framework, PRFAQ-style writing discipline from Amazon, and a philosophy of reframing disagreement as direction-alignment rather than pushback.