PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Product Management is notoriously difficult to get into. This challenge is especially augmented for those just graduating from college with minimal exposure to product management. Thus, companies have developed entry-level product management roles, known commonly as Associate Product Management (APM) roles.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The usual price is $30, but he is making it available to listeners of this podcast for just $10 for a limited time – until the end of January, 2017. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators. It helps you use customers to pick which of those three are going to make you the most money and sell the most new products.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Planview, a company with a strong track record of acquisition, was acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2017 and has been on an incredible journey since then. .

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B2B Product Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

We had proposed a lump-sum payment (aka as perpetual pricing in the Product Management lingo!) for our product license. This is the subscription or the pay-as-you-go pricing as the customer is paying as they go on using our product. A few months ago, one of our proposals got rejected because of our pricing. 1,240,000. $0.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

But along the way I ended up getting a concentration in finance at Wharton because it was what Wharton was most well known for. At the time I thought this would be the perfect mix of my passion for finance and software engineering. At the time I thought this would be the perfect mix of my passion for finance and software engineering.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2017

In turn, the product management role has expanded. The product manager of today is wearing many hats, using a broad knowledge base to define the problem-solution-fit, make trade-off decisions, bringing together cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between diverse functions, while still commanding the respect of engineering.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

I strongly believe that human skills like those listed above are meta skills that are just as essential to product management and leadership as more traditional skills like strategy development, data analytics, roadmap development, etc. Product management is more than a list of tasks and outputs.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2018

Photo from April 2017 Satisfactory Product ? Nov 1, 2017 ? —?Robinhood Appeal to those who are smartphone-averse) Dec 13, 2017 ?—? Therein lies the blue ocean (the “good market”): an untapped segment of people who 1. want to invest but can’t afford it or 2. haven’t considered investing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

3 – Masterly Masterly is a US-based full-service agency offering a full spectrum of digital design services, from brand strategy to product design. Founded in 2017 by Vlad and Yana Hrynchuk, Masterly Digital specializes in helping clients in FinTech, Web3, and DeFi elevate their brands and products through exceptional digital design.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

The company was founded by a digital trends expert and an entrepreneur, Gabriel Shaoolian, in 2017. Bop Design works with companies of different sizes, locations, and industries, from healthcare and biotech to accounting, finances, engineering, consulting, and technology, just to name a few.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2021

Since then, the company has raised almost $210 mln in funding from 14 investors and made two acquisitions—Insert and Receptive—in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Appcues is a user engagement and product management platform that is focused on also delivering a codeless user experience.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. You [could barely] customize the website before,” reflects Kimberly Tzeng, a product manager at LearnVest who was called on to help spearhead the redesign efforts.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. You [could barely] customize the website before,” reflects Kimberly Tzeng, a product manager at LearnVest who was called on to help spearhead the redesign efforts.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. You [could barely] customize the website before,” reflects Kimberly Tzeng, a product manager at LearnVest who was called on to help spearhead the redesign efforts.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Crafting an actionable definition for modern product management One of the questions that founders and CEOs often ask in VP / Head of Product interviews is, “What is product management to you?” Are these four things reflecting well what modern product management is? Something felt wrong.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Product Management Festival.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Product Management Festival.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Product Management Festival.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The reason I’m showing you this is to make you really see that I was in your shoes, and over the last 10 years, a lot has changed when it comes to how I think about research, about design, about product management, the difference between those things, but most importantly, the role of UX inside any company of any size.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. We spent most of 2017 building it out. That just blows my mind.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

Anna Belani , Director of Global Technical Program Manager (Bilbao, Spain): To me, a “balanced” workplace is one where we have an equal number?—?if of women in each of our groups, like P&T, marketing, business, legal, finance and sales, among others. This comes from a 2017 McKinsey Report. if not more?—?of

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I never had any plans to be at one company for that long, but I just kept doing new and different things there – I started in product management and then did a combination of product management and marketing and design. And the first time that I saw the Intercom product was literally a lightning bolt moment for me.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

I think what happened was – with bots specifically, through 2016 and 2017 – a lot of it was on Facebook Messenger. He’s in finance and is a very successful investment banker who started his own company, went bust and went back up again. There are really fuzzy end points to it. It’s brilliant. I highly recommend it.

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