In the middle of 2017, Postlight had more work than we could handle, with much more in the pipeline. We needed to grow. But growth is hard, and intentional, strategic growth — meaning hiring! — is even more challenging. One of our mottos is “team hires team” and we stick…

By Rich Ziade, Co-founder, Postlight It started over some mediocre Thai at my place. Paul Ford and I had been talking about doing something together for a long while. We ran with a theory that our skills and the way we approach work is complementary. We’re different in how we…

It’s one of the more poorly named professions. The product manager. There are plenty of articles out there that try to define it. One article nicely defines the role as the CEO of the product. A handy characterization. A distinction we like to highlight at Postlight is that a product…

By Rich Ziade, co-founder, Postlight The beauty of the internet is that anyone could put out a shingle. That’s John Battelle on last week’s Track Changes podcast. John brought an unusually optimistic viewpoint to the state of media and publishing on the internet today. …

By Rich Ziade, co-founder, Postlight About a month ago Postlight Labs released Mercury Reader, a Google Chrome extension that finds the readable content on a web page, yanks it out, and redraws it in a clean, easy-to-read format. If you’re familiar with Apple Safari’s browser, Mercury is similar to the…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how challenging it’s become for an outsider or manager to get a sense of how a project is going by just visiting a Slack channel. The problem is fairly straightforward: the day-to-day chatter that happens in a Slack channel isn’t useful to me…

By Rich Ziade, Co-founder, Postlight It goes something like this: A manager/executive/outsider/bystander (i.e. me) decides to peek in to get a sense of how a project is going. He enters the project’s channel on Slack and it looks like this… Jane: I know. I couldn’t believe he brought that up…

We’re throwing a party Thursday night. Since the beginning, we’ve had some great guests participate in what we call the Postlight Sessions. They range from presentations to informal Q&As. For our next event, we’ve decided to venture out a bit and relax in the middle of the summer. We’re going to show videos. Lots of strange, slightly off-the-wall videos. Then we’re going to let a panel of “experts” comment on them. All the while, people will be sipping margaritas and snacking on sliders. It’ll be lots of fun.

By Rich Ziade, co-founder, Postlight Though I’ve lived in the U.S. most of my life, I was born in Lebanon. We fled the war in 1976 and ended up in Brooklyn, NY. Much of my extended family lives in Lebanon, so my family and I visit once or twice a…